Donate to e Foundation | Murena handsets with /e/OS | Own a part of Murena! Learn more

Commit e6a591e5 authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Linus Torvalds
Browse files

Documentation/development-process: add staging & mmotm info 



Update explanation of mmotm.
Add explanation of drivers/staging/.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent ef0eba47

Documentation/development-process/2.Process

+8 −6
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -267,12 +267,8 @@ an appropriate subsystem tree or be sent directly to Linus. In a typical 
development cycle, approximately 10% of the patches going into the mainline

get there via -mm.



The current -mm patch can always be found from the front page of



	http://kernel.org/



Those who want to see the current state of -mm can get the "-mm of the

moment" tree, found at:

The current -mm patch is available in the "mmotm" (-mm of the moment)

directory at:



	http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
@@ -307,6 +303,12 @@ volatility of linux-next tends to make it a difficult development target. 
See http://lwn.net/Articles/289013/ for more information on this topic, and

stay tuned; much is still in flux where linux-next is involved.



Besides the mmotm and linux-next trees, the kernel source tree now contains

the drivers/staging/ directory and many sub-directories for drivers or

filesystems that are on their way to being added to the kernel tree

proper, but they remain in drivers/staging/ while they still need more

work.





2.5: TOOLS