Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265125AbTFYXnm (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:43:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265128AbTFYXnm (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:43:42 -0400 Received: from 25.mdrx.com ([65.67.58.25]:60587 "EHLO duallie.mdrx.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265125AbTFYXnl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:43:41 -0400 From: Brian Jackson To: Orion Poplawski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is their an explanation of various kernel versions/brances/patches/? (-mm, -ck, ..) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:57:48 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306251857.48341.brian@brianandsara.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1943 Lines: 54 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 lsm - Chris Wright - Linux Security Modules, provides a lightweight, general purpose framework for access control osdl - Stephen Hemminger, ? maybe enterprise stuff laptop - Hanno B?ck - 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/ -- OpenGFS -- http://opengfs.sourceforge.net Home -- http://www.brianandsara.net - 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/