Re: Is their an explanation of various kernel versions/brances/patches/? (-mm, -ck, ..)

[Brian Jackson]

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 - ?

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
>
>
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