On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Silvan Jegen <[email protected]> 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! On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Hao Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm sorry to bother you to ask some questions about -next tree and -mm tree. > I have read some documents about kernel trees, but I don't know the > difference between the -next tree and -mm tree. > Me neither apparently: it turns out I am only spreading misinformation. I checked Wikipedia and the "Linux Kernel" page[0] says: "After the change of the development model with 2.6.x, developers continued to want what one might call an unstable kernel tree, one that changes as rapidly as new patches come in. Andrew Morton decided to repurpose his -mm tree from memory management to serve as the destination for all new and experimental code. In September 2007 Morton decided to stop maintaining this tree.[128] In February 2008, Stephen Rothwell created the linux-next tree to serve as a place where patches aimed to be merged during the next development cycle are gathered." More over there is also a Wikipedia entry for "mm tree"[1] "Among Linux kernel developers, the -mm tree refers to a version of the kernel source code maintained by Andrew Morton. [...] Historically, the -mm tree focused on new developments for the memory management part of the kernel (mm)." Sorry for the long and wrong reply I gave earlier. Cheers, Giovanni [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mm_tree
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