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

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

[Orion Poplawski]

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

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

[Samuel Flory]

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
>
  Actually the ac is often the test ground for new 2.4 fixes, and features.

>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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>


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

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:57:48PM -0500, Brian Jackson wrote:
> pgcl - William Lee Irwin - ?

Page clustering. A vague attempt at a forward port of Hugh Dickins'
2.4.7 patch for the same purpose, WIP. I'd say it's more of one patch
than a patch set.


-- wli

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

[Disconnect]

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

[Peter C. Ndikuwera]

http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/index.php3#trees has a few of them

Maybe you could alert the web maintainers to the entries in this thread?
:-)

Peter Ndikuwera
Digital Solutions
Uganda

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 01:02, 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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