Alexander Viro

Main Quotes Index

Issue #335, Section #1 (27�Nov�2005:�Describing And Debating The Development Process)
Issue #335, Section #13 (27�Nov�2005:�Linux 2.6.14.1 Released)
Issue #329, Section #1 (26�Sep�2005:�Using linux/irq.h Or asm/irq.h In Drivers)
Issue #329, Section #7 (26�Sep�2005:�Russell's Projects)
Issue #328, Section #2 (19�Sep�2005:�Review Period In Preparation For 2.6.13.1)
Issue #327, Section #13 (12�Sep�2005:�Developer Toe-Stepping Over Patch Submission Policies)
Issue #320, Section #7 (28�Aug�2005:�DevFS Author Speaks In Favor Of DevFS After Long Silence)
Issue #307, Section #5 (26�Apr�2005:�Linus No Longer Using BitKeeper; Creates 'git' Replacement)
Issue #298, Section #6 (6�Mar�2005:�Linux 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Released)
Issue #295, Section #11 (3�Feb�2005:�Semantics Of Subtree Sharing)
Issue #284, Section #1 (17�Nov�2004:�Linux 2.6.9 Released)
Issue #284, Section #10 (17�Nov�2004:�Cross-Compilation HOWTO)
Issue #279, Section #2 (20�Oct�2004:�Linking Drivers With Modules In SysFS)
Issue #267, Section #3 (18�Jul�2004:�Linux 2.6.7 Released; ESSID Bug Introduced; SiS900 Full-Duplex Fix Not Applied)
Issue #264, Section #1 (25�Jun�2004:�Abortive Attempt To Enhance dnotify)
Issue #259, Section #7 (22�May�2004:�The Future Of dnotify)
Issue #256, Section #2 (2�Apr�2004:�Proposal: A Layered Kernel)
Issue #254, Section #17 (19�Mar�2004:�fbdev Patches Too Big And Buggy For Acceptance; Patch Submission Policy)
Issue #253, Section #22 (7�Mar�2004:�Linux 2.6.3-rc1; Status Of SysFS Support)
Issue #248, Section #1 (20�Jan�2004:�Researching SCO's Infringement Claims)
Issue #247, Section #17 (31�Dec�2003:�Ian Kent New DevFS Maintainer)
Issue #242, Section #9 (24�Nov�2003:�Status Of Experimental Net Driver Updates)
Issue #240, Section #2 (10�Nov�2003:�Linux 2.4.23-pre8 Released)
Issue #239, Section #7 (1�Nov�2003:�Status Of UMSDOS In 2.6)
Issue #236, Section #3 (26�Oct�2003:�Value Of DigSig Questioned By Developers)
Issue #234, Section #9 (6�Oct�2003:�Dealing With Partition Table Problems)
Issue #226, Section #9 (5�Aug�2003:�First Ban From linux-kernel: Rick A. Hohensee)
Issue #221, Section #4 (30�Jun�2003:�Status Of VFS Automount Support)
Issue #219, Section #6 (16�Jun�2003:�Kernel Developers' Relationship To POSIX And Other Standards)
Issue #217, Section #3 (23�May�2003:�Process Attribute API for Security Modules)
Issue #215, Section #10 (9�May�2003:�More 64-Bit mknod Discussion)
Issue #207, Section #10 (2�Mar�2003:�/proc Reorganization And Speedup)
Issue #193, Section #2 (25�Nov�2002:�Cleaning Up The devfs API)
Issue #193, Section #4 (25�Nov�2002:�Status Of Module Support In 2.5)
Issue #192, Section #5 (18�Nov�2002:�EVMS Changes Direction)
Issue #191, Section #2 (11�Nov�2002:�Dynamically Growing ext2 And ext3 Filesystems)
Issue #191, Section #4 (11�Nov�2002:�Linux 2.5.45 Released)
Issue #190, Section #2 (28�Oct�2002:�Hard-To-Track Bugs Caused By Obscure Global Symbols)
Issue #190, Section #6 (28�Oct�2002:�Maintainers List)
Issue #189, Section #4 (20�Oct�2002:�procps Maintainership Conflict)
Issue #189, Section #10 (20�Oct�2002:�Maintainer List)
Issue #188, Section #2 (13�Oct�2002:�LVM Removed From 2.5; Replacements Sought)
Issue #186, Section #19 (29�Sep�2002:�Floppy Driver Broken In 2.5.37)
Issue #185, Section #15 (22�Sep�2002:�Maintainer List)
Issue #183, Section #6 (8�Sep�2002:�Kernel 2.5.32 Announced; IDE Breakage; Keyboard Beep Breakage)
Issue #183, Section #7 (8�Sep�2002:�Some IDE Developer Interaction)
Issue #182, Section #12 (1�Sep�2002:�Submitting Documentation Patches)
Issue #181, Section #6 (25�Aug�2002:�More Logging Issues Considered)
Issue #181, Section #16 (25�Aug�2002:�IDE Maintainership Troubles; IDE Work Delayed Until 2.7)
Issue #181, Section #23 (25�Aug�2002:�Maintainer List)
Issue #180, Section #12 (18�Aug�2002:�klibc And Licensing)
Issue #180, Section #15 (18�Aug�2002:�Maintainer List)
Issue #178, Section #20 (4�Aug�2002:�Supporting Many SCSI Disks In 2.4 And 2.5)
Issue #176, Section #3 (21�Jul�2002:�New Sport Sweeps The Linux World - Film At Eleven)
Issue #175, Section #10 (14�Jul�2002:�Linux 2.5.25 Announced)
Issue #173, Section #2 (30�Jun�2002:�Shrinking ext2 And ext3 Directories)
Issue #172, Section #1 (23�Jun�2002:�New Fast Mutex Implementation For 2.5)
Issue #169, Section #6 (2�Jun�2002:�LVM Cleanup)
Issue #167, Section #5 (19�May�2002:�Devfs Bug Hunt)
Issue #165, Section #1 (5�May�2002:�Development Philosophy Of Unstable Tree; Linus Comments On The FSF)
Issue #162, Section #2 (14�Apr�2002:�Kernel Licensing Discussion)
Issue #161, Section #6 (7�Apr�2002:�BKL Cleanup In Filesystem Code)
Issue #159, Section #2 (25�Mar�2002:�Some Developers Unhappy With BitKeeper License)
Issue #155, Section #6 (25�Feb�2002:�VFS Documentation)
Issue #154, Section #2 (18�Feb�2002:�Ext Filesystem Corruption Under 2.5.3)
Issue #153, Section #9 (11�Feb�2002:�Linus Gives BitKeeper A Test Run)
Issue #149, Section #1 (7�Jan�2002:�The Scheduler; Development Philosophy; IRC)
Issue #146, Section #1 (17�Dec�2001:�Coding Style; Development Philosophy)
Issue #144, Section #4 (3�Dec�2001:�Marcelo Takes Over 2.4)
Issue #144, Section #6 (3�Dec�2001:�Suggestions For Marcelo)
Issue #143, Section #1 (26�Nov�2001:�Common ACL API For All Filesystems (Specifically NTFS))
Issue #140, Section #1 (5�Nov�2001:�Al Viro Planning To Fork devfs)
Issue #139, Section #1 (29�Oct�2001:�More Discussion Of License Tainting)
Issue #138, Section #2 (22�Oct�2001:�Identifying Kernels Linked With Undebuggable Code)
Issue #135, Section #4 (1�Oct�2001:�Virtual Memory Subsystem Rewritten In 2.4!)
Issue #135, Section #6 (1�Oct�2001:�Stackable Filesystem Based On FiST)
Issue #135, Section #12 (1�Oct�2001:�More Developer Backlash From VM Rewrite)
Issue #124, Section #6 (2�Jul�2001:�Microsoft And Source Licensing)
Issue #123, Section #5 (25�Jun�2001:�Linux 2.4.6-pre3)
Issue #123, Section #9 (25�Jun�2001:�Status Of Hotplug CPU Support)
Issue #121, Section #8 (11�Jun�2001:�Status Of CML2)
Issue #120, Section #1 (28�May�2001:�SMP Race In ext2)
Issue #120, Section #6 (28�May�2001:�New rootfs For 2.5)
Issue #117, Section #5 (7�May�2001:�No ISO9660 Filesystem Maintainer)
Issue #110, Section #3 (9�Mar�2001:�Per-Process Namespaces For Linux)
Issue #110, Section #6 (9�Mar�2001:�Mosix In The Standard Kernel)
Issue #100, Section #10 (1�Jan�2001:�Alan's 2.4 Tree)
Issue #98, Section #10 (18�Dec�2000:�Filesystem Corruption In Developer Kernels)
Issue #97, Section #2 (11�Dec�2000:�More 2.4 Filesystem Corruption)
Issue #92, Section #3 (6�Nov�2000:�Cleaning Up Internal Data Structures)
Issue #91, Section #7 (30�Oct�2000:�Filesystem Corruption Bug Revisited)
Issue #91, Section #12 (30�Oct�2000:�Minor Problems With 'linux-kernel')
Issue #89, Section #1 (16�Oct�2000:�'soft updates', Journalling, Crashing Virtual Machines; Linus On Current VM vs. Classzone)
Issue #89, Section #2 (16�Oct�2000:�Assigning 'nice' Values For Disk And Network Activity)
Issue #89, Section #13 (16�Oct�2000:�'minixfs' Exploit; Some Discussion Of Function Return Values)
Issue #88, Section #7 (9�Oct�2000:�Angry Fighting In The ARM Tree)
Issue #88, Section #10 (9�Oct�2000:�Redesigning Or Getting Rid Of '/proc/locks')
Issue #86, Section #5 (25�Sep�2000:�/proc API)
Issue #86, Section #11 (25�Sep�2000:�Linus To Adopt Patch Queue System!!!)
Issue #85, Section #4 (18�Sep�2000:�2.4.0-test8-pre2: Long-Time (Over A Year) Filesystem Corruption Bug Uncovered)
Issue #85, Section #5 (18�Sep�2000:�2.4.0-test8-pre4: Filesystem Corruption Bug And Rolled Up Newspaper)
Issue #84, Section #1 (11�Sep�2000:�Posix Threads (pthreads) In Linux)
Issue #83, Section #12 (5�Sep�2000:�Time To Replace The Big Kernel Spinlock With A Semaphore?)
Issue #81, Section #13 (21�Aug�2000:�NT/HFS-Style Multiple "Resources" In A Single File)
Issue #80, Section #8 (14�Aug�2000:�mount() History And Proposal)
Issue #80, Section #12 (14�Aug�2000:�Ancient ext2 Race Uncovered)
Issue #79, Section #9 (7�Aug�2000:�Status Of 2.4 To Do List; Kernel Bug Tracking System)
Issue #78, Section #8 (31�Jul�2000:�Confusion Over 'ext2' Maintainership)
Issue #77, Section #7 (24�Jul�2000:�Improving The Kernel Release Schedule)
Issue #76, Section #7 (17�Jul�2000:�Linus Inadvertantly Steps Into Minor Filesystem Dispute)
Issue #73, Section #6 (26�Jun�2000:�Some Debate Over POSIX And Symlinks)
Issue #73, Section #13 (26�Jun�2000:�Alan's Latest List Of Things To Do Before 2.4 Can Come Out)
Issue #72, Section #15 (19�Jun�2000:�Status Of /proc Reorganization)
Issue #71, Section #4 (12�Jun�2000:�CML2 Replacement For The 'kbuild' System; Language Dispute)
Issue #70, Section #2 (5�Jun�2000:�Things To Do Before 2.4: Saga Continues)
Issue #68, Section #2 (22�May�2000:�Treatment Of Contributors)
Issue #68, Section #7 (22�May�2000:�'/proc' Bug In Latest Development Kernels)
Issue #66, Section #7 (8�May�2000:�C++ And The Kernel)
Issue #65, Section #8 (1�May�2000:�Block Allocation In ext2)
Issue #64, Section #1 (24�Apr�2000:�Linus On devfs)
Issue #64, Section #9 (24�Apr�2000:�More 'devfs' Discussion)
Issue #64, Section #10 (24�Apr�2000:�Things To Do Before 2.4: Saga Continues)
Issue #63, Section #1 (17�Apr�2000:�NetWare Filesystem Sources Published)
Issue #62, Section #7 (10�Apr�2000:�Mount Code Cleanup)
Issue #62, Section #12 (10�Apr�2000:�AFFS Support And Discussion)
Issue #60, Section #2 (27�Mar�2000:�Linus On The Verge Of pre-2.4; Status Of reiserfs)
Issue #60, Section #3 (27�Mar�2000:�Alan's Task List For 2.4: Saga Continues)
Issue #56, Section #3 (28�Feb�2000:�To Do For 2.4: Saga Continues)
Issue #55, Section #11 (21�Feb�2000:�Bug Hunt In Unstable Series)
Issue #53, Section #4 (7�Feb�2000:�Slowing Down For 2.4)
Issue #52, Section #2 (24�Jan�2000:�/proc And sysctl())
Issue #52, Section #3 (24�Jan�2000:�Block Device Interface Change And Related Pain)
Issue #49, Section #2 (3�Jan�2000:�Preparing For Code Freeze)
Issue #49, Section #5 (3�Jan�2000:�Protecting Permissions In NFS)
Issue #46, Section #6 (13�Dec�1999:�Dangerous Fixes To FAT And HPFS)
Issue #45, Section #2 (6�Dec�1999:�Read/Write Semaphores)
Issue #45, Section #3 (6�Dec�1999:�Microsoft Historical Digression)
Issue #45, Section #4 (6�Dec�1999:�Some Explanation Of /proc)
Issue #44, Section #5 (22�Nov�1999:�Kernel Support For Binary-Only Programs)
Issue #43, Section #6 (15�Nov�1999:�Some Explanation Of The 'dentry' Struct)
Issue #42, Section #4 (8�Nov�1999:�VFS Inode Structure)
Issue #41, Section #5 (1�Nov�1999:�OFFTOPIC: Color-Blindness And Viewing The Kernel Version History Page)
Issue #41, Section #9 (1�Nov�1999:�Hardware Debugging)
Issue #30, Section #1 (5�Aug�1999:�FAT Inherently Broken; COMA Workaround Removed)
Issue #28, Section #8 (22�Jul�1999:�FAT Still Broken In Development Kernels)
Issue #28, Section #13 (22�Jul�1999:�Removing Linux/DOS Translations From Kernel)
Issue #27, Section #1 (15�Jul�1999:�Treating Directories As Files)
Issue #26, Section #1 (8�Jul�1999:�Big File Clarification)
Issue #25, Section #7 (1�Jul�1999:�FENRIS Source Available)
Issue #24, Section #7 (24�Jun�1999:�Renovating 'mount')
Issue #24, Section #13 (24�Jun�1999:�FAT Patch Lingers Unapplied)
Issue #24, Section #14 (24�Jun�1999:�mkdir() Problems And Uncertainties)
Issue #20, Section #2 (27�May�1999:�Remounting A Filesystem Under A Different Directory)
Issue #20, Section #3 (27�May�1999:�'rm' Too Slow)
Issue #19, Section #14 (20�May�1999:�Mailing List Delays And Header Changes)
Issue #18, Section #7 (13�May�1999:�Development Conflicts And Resolution)
Issue #17, Section #15 (6�May�1999:�Fixes For Rarely Touched Code)
Issue #16, Section #2 (29�Apr�1999:�FAT Fixes)
Issue #15, Section #3 (22�Apr�1999:�VFAT Hacks)
Issue #14, Section #12 (15�Apr�1999:�Difficulties Of Trapping Kernel Stack Overflows)
Issue #12, Section #2 (1�Apr�1999:�FAT Fixes)
Issue #12, Section #6 (1�Apr�1999:�Hard Links Without Write Permissions)
Issue #10, Section #11 (18�Mar�1999:�Symlink Recursion)
Issue #9, Section #1 (11�Mar�1999:�Panic Hunt)
Issue #7, Section #5 (24�Feb�1999:�A Double Fix)
Issue #7, Section #6 (24�Feb�1999:�fsync(); syslogd; Ext2 Extensions; Linus Chastized)
Issue #6, Section #3 (18�Feb�1999:�Inode Memory; Module Access To Cache)
Issue #6, Section #5 (18�Feb�1999:�Behavior Of rmdir())
Issue #5, Section #5 (11�Feb�1999:�Debugging Session)
Issue #2, Section #2 (21�Jan�1999:�Ensuring Unique Inodes In Microsoft's FAT Filesystem)

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