Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765060AbXFFPPb (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:15:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758739AbXFFPPY (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:15:24 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.237]:13237 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758717AbXFFPPX (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:15:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oNErYG9M28WrN68mO0CU8vrSnMiAQcFimlZnZimRVvDn9IpKKwXP1rutzHhmFqlq4V4HCzOe/zgaA2eeb+ZEBk/iMXxFrqT+qXqqdZzw21W+YIk6LemVIL7LlEZlF31k+xMPKN22dbMTW6Wb9S3+PvGdq8L5lkp9ca6NaUvZ1II= Message-ID: <9a8748490706060815uefaa75bh106b30a00f63fb54@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:15:22 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: tim.post@netkinetics.net Subject: Re: Kernel inclusion policy, meta desicion making structure? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Stefan Richter" In-Reply-To: <4666C73F.6080208@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1180928198.5786.111.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4666C73F.6080208@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1691 Lines: 46 On 06/06/07, Stefan Richter wrote: > Tim Post wrote on 2007-06-04: > > I was wondering if a meta version of the decision making process that > > would be employed to determine if a new contribution does or does not go > > into the main stream Linux kernel. > [...] > > Does some document exist that shows the decision making process so that > > I can easily answer the ultimate question of "Why not" for myself? > > There is documentation on how submissions should look like. Some starting points: Documentation/HOWTO Documentation/SubmittingDrivers Documentation/SubmittingPatches Documentation/SubmitChecklist Documentation/ManagementStyle > Other than > that, these are case-by-case decisions based on a number of factors. > Perhaps you should look up discussions on merge requests (accepted as > well as rejected ones) in archives or better at sources like LWN.net. > Good LKML archives to search : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel http://lkml.org/ Sometimes good summaries of discussions / decision making processes can also be found at http://kerneltrap.org/ You can also search the ChangeLog messages for different patches easily via git-web: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git;a=summary -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/