Rik van Riel wrote:
Jim Cromie wrote:
I was looking for a bit more info here, so let me pose some addtions
on-list, and see which are correct / improvements.
Thanks for doing this. Improvements to the wiki are always
welcome. Lets help people understand how Linux kernel
development works...
(mainline) ( implicit -dev suffix)
goal is to release every 8-12 weeks
1-2 weeks after release, new Current is opened.
1-2 weeks later, goes to -rc1
-rcX
released as-needed, typically 1-2 weeks
starts slushy, as X increases, gets increasingly frozen
Looks good. Maybe tell people that this is not really a tree,
but part of the process through which the 2.6 kernel goes to
make new releases.
In fact, maybe the VariousKernelTrees page would be a good
page to explain how the 2.6 kernel process works?
-mm
says ".. about to go into the 2.6 kernel .."
can we get more specific ?
- typically has 1000 .. 1900 patches
- most are to be considered for Current-rc + 1 or + 2
- intended for wider testing, and to identify interaction with
other patches
- some (small %, mostly new drivers) get into Current-rc, before
its released (Andrew and Linus decide)
- occaisionally big work goes thru -mm, and into -rcX w/o +1
release gestation
lockdep, sema --> mutex switch (these 2 examples matured in
-rt 1st)
- max changes usually-rate is mostly
Looks good. Maybe also tell people that code that does not
get fixed often gets dropped from -mm again without going
into the upstream kernel?
24-ac
major product of this tree was VM that went into 2.4.10
oops. I meant -aa there.
iirc, there was some hullabaloo about how that VM got in,
directly by Linus, w/o the usual review.
I planned to leave that 'gossip-column' talk out,
but there is some 'motivation for process' there .. ;-)
While we're talking 'dirty laundry', what was the day-Zero defect
in 2.4.11 that caused it to be marked -dontuse in the archive ?
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/
Ironically, the 2.4-ac tree stabilized the VM that was removed
in 2.4.10...
24-rmap
reverse mapping was merged into 2.4.??
Nope, it got merged into 2.5.
Thanks for the clarification, ideas.
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