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SubjectRe: Is their an explanation of various kernel versions/brances/patches/? (-mm, -ck, ..)
FromDisconnect <>
Date26 Jun 2003 11:03:35 -0400
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 19:57, 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
> 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 - ?

To add a couple:
 dis - Laptop-related (ACPI, swsusp, cpufreq, etc) patches
 jp - Security/performance?

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Disconnect <lkml@sigkill.net>

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