"I should be doing status reports, so here's my first cut at what is happening and what is going on so far. I'll try to do these every few weeks, and I also encourage the project managers of active projects to also do this," explained Greg KH, posting his October 16'th Status Report for the Linux Driver Project. He noted:

"Currently, I'm talking with about 3-4 new companies about more projects, and am working on a list of external modules that need to get cleaned up and added to the kernel tree that this project can help out with.

"But what we are really lacking right now is more companies involvement. If anyone can think of a way to drum up more company interest, please let me know."

Greg then offered a status summary of all six currently active projects, "here's the current projects, and what is going on with them." Drivers currently being developed by the driver project include, "3 i2c devices, a VOIP gateway driver, USB/PCI driver for video timestamp device, highspeed datacapture device driver, and a video digital demodulator driver" Another project is listed as focusing on cleaning up the existing USB driver.

Greg KH posted three emails titled State of the Linux Driver Core Subsystem, State of the Linux USB Subsystem, and State of the Linux PCI Subsystem, noting that for each there were no known regressions then going on to list which patches were bound for the upcoming 2.6.24 kernel. Greg pointed out that there were a large number of open bugs against the USB subsystem, "yeah, there are way too many there, I've been really slack in trying to work through them. If anyone wants to help out, feel free :)" He continued:

"Note, there are over 100 patches in the USB queue, so I might have missed a few things in reviewing them by hand right now. If I failed to describe your patch that is already in the queue, and you feel it is important for everyone to know about, please feel free to add to the above list. I did not purposefully mean to exclude anything, merely try to summarize things"