Documentation/development-process: update staging info
PATCH 2/2 Documentation/development-process: update staging info
From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Update explanation of mmotm.
Add explanation of drivers/staging/.
Signed-off-by Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
--- Documentation/development-process/2.Process | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Documentation/development-process/2.Process +8 -6
@@ -267,12 +267,8 @@ an appropriate subsystem tree or be sent development cycle, approximately 10% of the patches going into the mainline get there via -mm. -The current -mm patch can always be found from the front page of - - http://kernel.org/ - -Those who want to see the current state of -mm can get the "-mm of the -moment" tree, found at: +The current -mm patch is available in the "mmotm" (-mm of the moment) +directory at: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
@@ -307,6 +303,12 @@ volatility of linux-next tends to make i See http://lwn.net/Articles/289013/ for more information on this topic, and stay tuned; much is still in flux where linux-next is involved. +Besides the mmotm and linux-next trees, the kernel source tree now contains +the drivers/staging/ directory and many sub-directories for drivers or +filesystems that are on their way to being added to the kernel tree +proper, but they remain in drivers/staging/ while they still need more +work. + 2.5: TOOLS
Jonathan Corbet
maintainerDocumentation/development-process/2.Process volatility of linux-next tends to make i · line 310
Quoted 5 lines · On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:17:28 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:
Documentation/development-process/2.Process +5
-0+Besides the mmotm and linux-next trees, the kernel source tree now contains +the drivers/staging/ directory and many sub-directories for drivers or +filesystems that are on their way to being added to the kernel tree +proper, but they remain in drivers/staging/ while they still need more +work.
It would be better to add a proper section on staging, but, certainly, I've not gotten around to that. This is an improvement, anyway, so you can add my acked-by on this one too.
Thanks,
jon