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diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/2.Process b/Documentation/development-process/2.Process index 97726eba610..ae8127c1a78 100644 --- a/Documentation/development-process/2.Process +++ b/Documentation/development-process/2.Process @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ The stages that a patch goes through are, generally: inclusion, it should be accepted by a relevant subsystem maintainer - though this acceptance is not a guarantee that the patch will make it all the way to the mainline. The patch will show up in the maintainer's - subsystem tree and into the staging trees (described below). When the + subsystem tree and into the -next trees (described below). When the process works, this step leads to more extensive review of the patch and the discovery of any problems resulting from the integration of this patch with work being done by others. @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ finding the right maintainer. Sending patches directly to Linus is not normally the right way to go. -2.4: STAGING TREES +2.4: NEXT TREES The chain of subsystem trees guides the flow of patches into the kernel, but it also raises an interesting question: what if somebody wants to look @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ changes land in the mainline kernel. One could pull changes from all of the interesting subsystem trees, but that would be a big and error-prone job. -The answer comes in the form of staging trees, where subsystem trees are +The answer comes in the form of -next trees, where subsystem trees are collected for testing and review. The older of these trees, maintained by Andrew Morton, is called "-mm" (for memory management, which is how it got started). The -mm tree integrates patches from a long list of subsystem @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ directory at: Use of the MMOTM tree is likely to be a frustrating experience, though; there is a definite chance that it will not even compile. -The other staging tree, started more recently, is linux-next, maintained by +The other -next tree, started more recently, is linux-next, maintained by Stephen Rothwell. The linux-next tree is, by design, a snapshot of what the mainline is expected to look like after the next merge window closes. Linux-next trees are announced on the linux-kernel and linux-next mailing |