From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com (Sudip Mukherjee) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 19:47:10 +0530 Subject: What are the differences between the -next tree and the -mm tree? In-Reply-To: References: <447110d262adfcce555052e53d2b3203@sillymon.ch> Message-ID: <20151208141710.GA4120@sudip-pc> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 02:37:23PM +0100, Giovanni Gherdovich wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Silvan Jegen wrote: > > > > > > I think it is Stephen Rothwell that manages linux-next (look at the > author of the tags here[0]). > > > > > > [0] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git > > Right, thanks! Yes, Stephen Rothwell will manage linux-next and when Stephen is not available then someone might volunteer to take that responsibility. Like Mark Brown created linux-next for few days in last week. linux-next is usually used as the testing ground of almost all patches which will be sent to Linus. Almost all the merge conflicts, build failures are solved in linux-next before the patches are sent. regards sudip