Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
Some of them can be easily replaced by newer ones (for example,
IDE-SCSI
was used mainly for CD-Burning, but now you can use direct ATAPI
CD-Burning), and some will be superseded by newer versions, like LVM2 or
EVMS.
should-fix.txt:
drivers/ide/
~~~~~~~~~~~~
(Alan)
o IDE PIO has occasional unexplained PIO disk eating reports
PRI1
o IDE has multiple zillions of races/hangs in 2.5 still
PRI1
o There are lots of other IDE bugs that wont go away until the taskfile
stuff is included, the locking bugs that allow any user to hang the IDE
layer in 2.5, and some other updates are forward ported. (esp. HPT372N).
PRI1
[...]
For mainstream usage, I think 2.6 is ready for most of the people
out
there.
must-fix.txt:
o alan: Forward port 2.4 fixes
- Security fixes including execve holes, execve vs proc races
o There are about 60 or 70 security related checks that need doing
(copy_user etc) from Stanford tools. (badari is looking into this, and
hollisb)
o A couple of hundred real looking bugzilla bugs
[...]
Maybe in six months +/- it will be ok.
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