Re: Is their an explanation of various kernel versions/brances/patches/?

Samuel Flory (sflory@rackable.com)
Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:59:44 -0700


Brian Jackson wrote:

>I don't know of a website that tracks that stuff, but here goes my knowledge
>of the different patchsets:
>
>for the most part all of them are testing grounds for patches that someday
>hope to be in the vanilla kernel
>
>mm - Andrew Morton - vm related testing ground for dev tree
>ck - Con Kolivas - desktop/interactivity patches
>kj - Kernel Janitors - testing ground for kernel cleanups on development trees
>mjb - Martin J Bligh - scalability stuff
>wli - William Lee Irwin - other vm related stuff for dev tree that Andrew
> Morton may not have time for
>ac - Alan Cox - lately it's been a testing ground for new ide
>
Actually the ac is often the test ground for new 2.4 fixes, and features.

>lsm - Chris Wright - Linux Security Modules, provides a lightweight, general
> purpose framework for access control
>osdl - Stephen Hemminger, ? maybe enterprise stuff
>laptop - Hanno Böck - unproven laptop type patches
>aa - Andrea Arcangeli - stable series vm stuff
>dj - Dave Jones - cleanups/AGP
>rmap - Rik van Riel - reverse mapping vm for 2.4
>pgcl - William Lee Irwin - ?
>
>Others? Oh yes. Maybe this is something that should be tracked on a webpage
>somewhere.
>
>--Brian Jackson
>
>On Wednesday 25 June 2003 05:02 pm, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>
>
>>Seems like everybody and their brother is maintaining a kernel patch set
>>these days :-).
>>
>>Is there a page somewhere that explains the goals of each of the various
>>versions?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>- Orion
>>
>>
>>-
>>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
>>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
>>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
>>Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
>>
>>
>
>
>

-- 
Once you have their hardware. Never give it back.
(The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory  <sflory@rackable.com>

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/