A question about kernel's development

Hi us,
I wanna know our kernel's development
procedure for details. I just realize when we get a stable release, we must merge trementous patches into kernel. I often watch -rc kernels, -git kernels, , -mm kernels and know their promulgators. But i don't know their relationships and sequences for shaping stable ones.

Okay, now we want to develop 2.6.38
to 2.6.39. How many specific steps should we do? In fact, i recognize some. But i want to understand all the concrete procedures. Could anyone help me, thanks in advance.

Hi us,
I wanna know our kernel's development
procedure for details. I just realize when we get a stable release, we must merge trementous patches into kernel. I often watch -rc kernels, -git kernels,

, -mm kernels and know their promulgators. But i don't know their relationships and sequences for shaping stable ones.
Okay, now we want to develop 2.6.38
to 2.6.39. How many specific steps should we do? In fact, i recognize some. But i want to understand all the concrete procedures. Could anyone help me, thanks in advance.

Quoted 9 lines · Harry Wei

Hi us,
I wanna know our kernel's development
procedure for details. I just realize when we get a stable release, we must merge trementous patches into kernel. I often watch -rc kernels, -git kernels, , -mm kernels and know their promulgators. But i don't know their relationships and sequences for shaping stable ones.

Well, a quick answer is that when we fix a bug, we tag it with
Cc: [email protected]

Then when it is applied to Linus's tree, Greg then can choose to pull it into the stable branch.

I also believe that Greg spends lots of lonely nights looking into git commits, drinking his favorite Latte and cursing at all the git patches that fix a bug that didn't have a Cc: stable tag attached. He use to have a huge mane of hair on his head before taking over as stable maintainer ;)

-- Steve

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Okay, now we want to develop 2.6.38
to 2.6.39. How many specific steps should we do? In fact, i recognize some. But i want to understand all the concrete procedures. Could anyone help me, thanks in advance.

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Quoted 6 lines · Harry Wei

Hi us,
I wanna know our kernel's development
procedure for details. I just realize when we get a stable release, we must merge trementous patches into kernel. I often watch -rc kernels, -git kernels,

Quoted 8 lines

, -mm kernels and know their promulgators. But i don't know their relationships and sequences for shaping stable ones.
Okay, now we want to develop 2.6.38
to 2.6.39. How many specific steps should we do? In fact, i recognize some. But i want to understand all the concrete procedures. Could anyone help me, thanks in advance.

Please read Documentation/HOWTO and Documentation/development_process/ for all of the details.

If you have specific questions after reading all of that, please let us know.

thanks,

greg k-h
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