Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Is their an explanation of various kernel versions/brances/patches/? (-mm, -ck, ..) | From | Disconnect <> | Date | 26 Jun 2003 11:03:35 -0400 |
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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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