Thursday, March 03 2005 @ 10:12 PM EST Contributed by: glosser
If you are just dying to know, what might make it into the 2.6.12 kernel, check out this article from KernelTrap.org.
In response to whether or not he had any objections to merging FUSE [story] into the mainline kernel, Andrew Morton [interview] offered some insight into what new features were slated for the upcoming 2.6.12 kernel.
Andrew began, "I was planning on sending FUSE onto Linus in a week or two," going on to add "that and cpusets are the notable features which are 2.6.12 candidates."
Andrew then referred to several other patches currently in his -mm patchset [story], discussing their likelihood of being merged into the mainline kernel. He described crashdump [story] as seeming "permanently not-quite-ready". He noted that perfctr "works fine", but that it was "similar-to-but-different-from" the IA64 perfmon subsystem, and "might not be suitable for ppc64". Both nfsacl [thread] and the device-mapper multipath [thread] patches were deemed "OK for 2.6.12". Regarding cachefs, Andrew noted it "is a bit stuck because it's a ton of complex code and afs is the only user of it. Wiring it up to NFS would help." Finally, regarding whether or not he planned to merge reiser4 [story], he said this was "less clear" going on to add "once all the review comments have been addressed and we start seeing a bit of vendor pull for it, maybe."
