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From: me@sillymon.ch (Silvan Jegen)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: What are the differences between the -next tree and the -mm tree?
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 12:44:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <447110d262adfcce555052e53d2b3203@sillymon.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJN7YmMibj5bFYsMbWN9Xy62D8efMAajkJfw3p1mxb3zDvX97w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Giovanni

Thanks for these explanations!

Just one correction below.


Am 2015-12-08 11:56, schrieb Giovanni Gherdovich:
> I am not a kernel developer but I think I can answer this.
> 
> This is how I understand it:
> 
> Short version:
> 
> -next is a very special Linux branch managed by Linus Torvalds

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

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-08 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-08  8:19 What are the differences between the -next tree and the -mm tree? Hao Lee
2015-12-08 10:56 ` Giovanni Gherdovich
2015-12-08 11:44   ` Silvan Jegen [this message]
2015-12-08 13:37     ` Giovanni Gherdovich
2015-12-08 14:17       ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-12-09  3:51         ` Hao Lee

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