Is their an explanation of various kernel versions/brances/patches/? (-mm, -ck, ..)
Seems like everybody and their brother is maintaining a kernel patch set these days :-).
Is there a page somewhere that explains the goals of each of the various versions?
Thanks!
- Orion
I don't know of a website that tracks that stuff, but here goes my knowledge of the different patchsets:
for the most part all of them are testing grounds for patches that someday hope to be in the vanilla kernel
mm - Andrew Morton - vm related testing ground for dev tree
ck - Con Kolivas - desktop/interactivity patches
kj - Kernel Janitors - testing ground for kernel cleanups on development trees mjb - Martin J Bligh - scalability stuff
wli - William Lee Irwin - other vm related stuff for dev tree that Andrew
Morton may not have time for
ac - Alan Cox - lately it's been a testing ground for new ide
lsm - Chris Wright - Linux Security Modules, provides a lightweight, general
purpose framework for access control
osdl - Stephen Hemminger, ? maybe enterprise stuff
laptop - Hanno Böck - unproven laptop type patches
aa - Andrea Arcangeli - stable series vm stuff
dj - Dave Jones - cleanups/AGP
rmap - Rik van Riel - reverse mapping vm for 2.4
pgcl - William Lee Irwin - ?
Others? Oh yes. Maybe this is something that should be tracked on a webpage somewhere.
--Brian Jackson
Quoted 16 lines · Orion Poplawski
Seems like everybody and their brother is maintaining a kernel patch set these days :-).
Is there a page somewhere that explains the goals of each of the various versions?
Thanks!
- Orion
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pgcl - William Lee Irwin - ?
Page clustering. A vague attempt at a forward port of Hugh Dickins' 2.4.7 patch for the same purpose, WIP. I'd say it's more of one patch than a patch set.
-- wli
Quoted 4 lines · Brian Jackson
I don't know of a website that tracks that stuff, but here goes my knowledge of the different patchsets:
for the most part all of them are testing grounds for patches that someday hope to be in the vanilla kernel
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mm - Andrew Morton - vm related testing ground for dev tree
ck - Con Kolivas - desktop/interactivity patches
kj - Kernel Janitors - testing ground for kernel cleanups on development trees mjb - Martin J Bligh - scalability stuff
wli - William Lee Irwin - other vm related stuff for dev tree that Andrew
Morton may not have time for
ac - Alan Cox - lately it's been a testing ground for new ide
Actually the ac is often the test ground for new 2.4 fixes, and features.
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lsm - Chris Wright - Linux Security Modules, provides a lightweight, general
purpose framework for access control
osdl - Stephen Hemminger, ? maybe enterprise stuff
laptop - Hanno Böck - unproven laptop type patches
aa - Andrea Arcangeli - stable series vm stuff
dj - Dave Jones - cleanups/AGP
rmap - Rik van Riel - reverse mapping vm for 2.4
pgcl - William Lee Irwin - ?Others? Oh yes. Maybe this is something that should be tracked on a webpage somewhere.
--Brian Jackson
Quoted 18 lines · Orion Poplawski
Seems like everybody and their brother is maintaining a kernel patch set these days :-).
Is there a page somewhere that explains the goals of each of the various versions?
Thanks!
- Orion
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Quoted 6 lines · Brian Jackson
I don't know of a website that tracks that stuff, but here goes my knowledge of the different patchsets:
for the most part all of them are testing grounds for patches that someday hope to be in the vanilla kernel
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mm - Andrew Morton - vm related testing ground for dev tree
ck - Con Kolivas - desktop/interactivity patches
kj - Kernel Janitors - testing ground for kernel cleanups on development trees mjb - Martin J Bligh - scalability stuff
wli - William Lee Irwin - other vm related stuff for dev tree that Andrew
Morton may not have time for
ac - Alan Cox - lately it's been a testing ground for new ide
lsm - Chris Wright - Linux Security Modules, provides a lightweight, general
purpose framework for access control
osdl - Stephen Hemminger, ? maybe enterprise stuff
laptop - Hanno Böck - unproven laptop type patches
aa - Andrea Arcangeli - stable series vm stuff
dj - Dave Jones - cleanups/AGP
rmap - Rik van Riel - reverse mapping vm for 2.4
pgcl - William Lee Irwin - ?
To add a couple:
dis - Laptop-related (ACPI, swsusp, cpufreq, etc) patches jp - Security/performance?
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http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/index.php3#trees has a few of them
Maybe you could alert the web maintainers to the entries in this thread? :-)
Peter Ndikuwera
Digital Solutions
Uganda
Quoted 16 lines · Orion Poplawski
Seems like everybody and their brother is maintaining a kernel patch set these days :-).
Is there a page somewhere that explains the goals of each of the various versions?
Thanks!
- Orion
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