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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Opinion about Linux Foundation courses
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:09:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100910170913.GC6193@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikugt28Lsf9wgCyOD=t4SK4pMyCNxCU5Yahs_nz@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:31:14PM +0530, Rahul Ruikar wrote:
> Thanks Greg,
> I have query related to which git tree to take as reference for bug
> fix / code review . .etc

It depends on the subsystem you are concerned about.

>  I am aware of this one
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6.git

That is for no one to use, didn't you notice the description of it:
	"Junk tree, do not use".

I use that ONLY to send patches to Linus, so consider it a private tree
for just me to use occasionally in this manner.

>  I mean developers who post their patches in "linux-usb" mailing
> list.. Do they always refer to above git tree. ?

No.

See the MAINTAINERS file for the locations of the developer trees for
the different subsystems, they are all specified there.

If you want to see all of the developer trees together, use the
linux-next tree, that is what it is there for.

If you want to report bugs, they can be reported against any tree you
find :)

But most importantly, test Linus's tree, that is where we care about
bugs the most.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-10 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-07 22:54 Opinion about Linux Foundation courses Andre Nogueira
2010-09-08  0:44 ` Greg KH
2010-09-09  1:15 ` Greg KH
2010-09-09 10:45 ` Andre Nogueira
2010-09-09 13:08 ` Kevin McKinney
2010-09-09 13:53 ` Maciej Grela
2010-09-09 14:28 ` Jason
2010-09-09 15:34 ` Kevin McKinney
2010-09-09 16:23 ` Jason
2010-09-09 20:28 ` Greg KH
2010-09-10 10:13 ` Rahul Ruikar
2010-09-10 17:09 ` Greg KH [this message]

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