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Documentation/development-process: update staging info

PATCH In review Randy Dunlap 2 participants 2 messages Apr 6, 2010 Documentation

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PATCH 2/2 Documentation/development-process: update staging info

From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>

Update explanation of mmotm.
Add explanation of drivers/staging/.

Cc Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
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 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.
+
 
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Documentation/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