Which tree should we work agains?
Hi Dan,
I’m a kernel newbie, and sorry for bother you in advanced.
From your this email: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.janitors/30739,
you have pointed out we should work against linux-next tree. is it true for all of us?
From this site: https://code.google.com/p/kernel-janitors/, I got this statements:
"Q: What version should I be patching against?
A: Latest "linus" (2.6.x-rcY from kernel.org). Be sure to check -mm and -kj trees to see
if someone already did that. "
For -mm tree, is it means the linux-mm tree? after reading this wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mm_tree,
it seems linux-next is the substitution for linux-mm tree's "new features" functionality.
For the -kj tree, I event can't find it from https://git.kernel.org/cgit website, only found it at here: http://cba.si/kj/
is it outdated, and un-useful?
So, in one word, could you kindly point me out which tree I should work against ?Or just kindly give me the links for document. Thanks for your help in advanced.
regards,
Yi
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Quoted 4 lines · Yi Li
Hi Dan,
I’m a kernel newbie, and sorry for bother you in advanced.Quoted 1 line
From your this email: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.janitors/30739,
you have pointed out we should work against linux-next tree. is it true for all of us?
Pretty much, unless you are fixing an important bug and then you work on the latest Linus tree.
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From this site: https://code.google.com/p/kernel-janitors/, I got this statements:
"Q: What version should I be patching against?
A: Latest "linus" (2.6.x-rcY from kernel.org). Be sure to check -mm and -kj trees to see
if someone already did that. "
For -mm tree, is it means the linux-mm tree? after reading this wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mm_tree,
it seems linux-next is the substitution for linux-mm tree's "new features" functionality.
For the -kj tree, I event can't find it from https://git.kernel.org/cgit website, only found it at here: http://cba.si/kj/
is it outdated, and un-useful?
Yes. Those are all outdated.
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So, in one word, could you kindly point me out which tree I should work against ?Or just kindly give me the links for document. Thanks for your help in advanced.
Btw, one constant problem that we have had in kernel janitors is that the TODO list gets outdated. I have started tagging my emails if I want to record something in a TODO list.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/184
http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2014-May/000690.html
I can do a: grepmail ^TODO-list inbox to see my todo list. Anyone can add stuff to it.
Eventually, I'm hoping someone will put the TODO list on a webpage, but for now if you want to subscribe to driver-devel then that's where there are the most TODO items.
regards,
dan carpenter
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Quoted 3 lines · Sima Baymani
The patch you responded to in that link was aimed for staging. Previously, I have understood that staging work is done on staging-next - has this changed?
linux-next is compiled each day from staging-next and 100+ other devel trees. It might be up to 24 hours behind staging-next but it's basically the same thing.
regards,
dan carpenter
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Quoted 3 lines · Sima Baymani
The patch you responded to in that link was aimed for staging. Previously, I have understood that staging work is done on staging-next - has this changed?
linux-next is compiled each day from staging-next and 100+ other devel trees. It might be up to 24 hours behind staging-next but it's basically the same thing.
That clears things up, thanks!
-Sima
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regards,
dan carpenter
Quoted 5 lines · Dan Carpenter
Quoted 3 lines · Sima Baymani
The patch you responded to in that link was aimed for staging. Previously, I have understood that staging work is done on staging-next - has this changed?
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linux-next is compiled each day from staging-next and 100+ other devel trees. It might be up to 24 hours behind staging-next but it's basically the same thing.
regards,
dan carpenter
Thanks, Dan. it is very useful!
regards,
Yi