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diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 70d01290b..f0b720ba4 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>:
     Compression-side support.
   init
     General cleanup (should use ENABLE_FEATURE_INIT_SYSLOG and ENABLE_FEATURE_INIT_DEBUG).
+  depmod
+    busybox lacks a way to update module deps when running from firmware without the
+    use of the depmod.pl (perl is to bloated for most embedded setups) and or orig
+    modutils. The orig depmod is rather pointless to have to add to a firmware image
+    in when we already have a insmod/rmmod and friends.
   Unify base64 handling.
     There's base64 encoding and decoding going on in:
       networking/wget.c:base64enc()
@@ -112,13 +117,20 @@ Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>:
     This one's open to everybody, but I'll wind up doing it...
 
 
-Bernhard Fischer <rep.nop@anon.at>:
-  Makefile stuff:
-    make -j is broken, -j1 is forced atm
+Bernhard Fischer <busybox@busybox.net> suggests to look at these:
   New debug options:
     -Wlarger-than-127
+    Cleanup any big users
+    -Wunused-parameter
+    Facilitate applet PROTOTYPES to provide means for having applets that
+    do a) not take any arguments b) need only one of argc or argv c) need
+    both argc and argv. All of these three options should go for the most
+    feature complete denominator.
   Collate BUFSIZ IOBUF_SIZE MY_BUF_SIZE PIPE_PROGRESS_SIZE BUFSIZE PIPESIZE
-    Use bb_common_bufsiz1?
+    make bb_common_bufsiz1 configurable, size wise.
+    make pipesize configurable, size wise.
+    Use bb_common_bufsiz1 throughout applets!
+  Add chrt applet. Please CC Bernhard if you suggest a patch.
 
 As yet unclaimed:
 
@@ -130,10 +142,10 @@ diff
   Make sure we handle empty files properly:
     From the patch man page:
 
-   you can remove a file by sending out a context diff that compares
-   the file to be deleted with an empty file dated the Epoch.  The
-   file will be removed unless patch is conforming to POSIX and the
-   -E or --remove-empty-files option is not given.
+    you can remove a file by sending out a context diff that compares
+    the file to be deleted with an empty file dated the Epoch.  The
+    file will be removed unless patch is conforming to POSIX and the
+    -E or --remove-empty-files option is not given.
 ---
 patch
   Should have simple fuzz factor support to apply patches at an offset which
@@ -153,8 +165,6 @@ man
 ar
   Write support?
 ---
-crond
-  turn FEATURE_DEBUG_OPT into ENABLE_FEATURE_CROND_DEBUG_OPT
 
 Architectural issues:
 
@@ -250,7 +260,7 @@ FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
   jumps out of the normal flow control and bypasses any cleanup code we
   put at the end of our applets.
 
-  It's possible to add hooks to libbb functions like xmalloc() and bb_xopen()
+  It's possible to add hooks to libbb functions like xmalloc() and xopen()
   to add their entries to a linked list, which could be traversed and
   freed/closed automatically.  (This would need to be able to free just the
   entries after a checkpoint to be usable for a forkless standalone shell.
@@ -283,8 +293,7 @@ Minor stuff:
 ---
   possible code duplication ingroup() and is_a_group_member()
 ---
-  unify itoa: netstat.c, hush.c, lash.c, msh.c
-  Put one single, robust version into e.g. safe_strtol.c
+  Move __get_hz() to a better place and (re)use it in route.c, ash.c, msh.c
 ---
 
 
@@ -298,4 +307,3 @@ sigblock(), siggetmask(), sigsetmask(), sigmask() -> sigprocmask et al
 ---
 vdprintf() -> similar sized functionality
 ---
-