Hi, 2013/5/26 Jimmy Pan <dspjmt@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > I am wondering how different version of kernel is discussed on kernel mailing list. > We can see that, the latest kernel stable is 3.9.4, and the mainline is 3.10-rc2 and there is an EOF say 3.8.13 and a longterm 3.4.47, and a linux-next > I have several questions: > 1.When we see a patch on linux kernel mailing list, which kernel version is it based on?(seems never exsists a description in the patch) It's always the next kernel version (now that 3.11-rc1 is out, patches are for 3.12). Exception: patches that corrects bugs/regression of the current -rc > 2.What should we do if we whant to send a patch for different kernel version? There's no way. We simply don't. Exception: stable kernels (cf Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt ) (only bug fixes) (the procedure for sending patches to stable may change in a near future) > 3.If a 3.x-rc turn out to be stable, is it going to be 3.x.1? After the release candidates, *every* kernel release is "stable" (but only a few will be "long term support") example with 3.10 serie : after the 3.9 is out, during 2 weeks, all the git trees of the maintainers are merged in linux-next. conflicts are solved, and then Linus pulls the code from those trees. That makes 3.10-rc1. after that, each week there's a new rc, and it stops when Linus juges that there's no "important" regressions / bugs introduced by this rc In our case, until 3.10-rc7 Then, 3.10 is tagged and said stable. Greg GK will maintain this version (with bug fixes only) until 3.12-rc1 is out (I'm not very sure about the timings here, but that's the idea) > 4.There is no 3.10 in linus' tree, what exactly is linus' tree? yes, there is : https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ and the stable tree is here : https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/ > 5.Is linux-next a preview of the next mainline version? In this case 3.10-rc3 Yes, it's a preview of the next version. But it may not compile, or eat your data ! Richard. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
