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From: me@sillymon.ch (Silvan Jegen)
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 12:44:45 +0100
Subject: What are the differences between the -next tree and the -mm tree?
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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