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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-17 20:09:35 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-17 20:09:35 +0100
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Pul documentation update from Jon Corbet: "Another relatively boring cycle for the docs tree: typo fixes, translation updates, etc" * tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: modsign: Fix documentation on module signing enforcement parameter. Doc: nfs: Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/nfs Documentation: kselftest: Remove duplicate word doc: fix grammar Documentation: Howto: Fixed subtitles style Doc: ARM: Fix a typo in clksrc-change-registers.awk Documentation/ko_KR: update maintainer information Documentation: Fix int/unsigned int comparison Documentation: Chinese translation of arm64/silicon-errata.txt Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt Documentation: HOWTO: remove obsolete info about regression postings Doc: ja_JP: Fix a typo in HOWTO Doc: i2c: Fix typo in Documentation/i2c Doc: DocBook: Fix a typo in device-drivers.tmpl Remove "arch" usage in Documentation/features/list-arch.sh README: cosmetic fixes Documentation/CodingStyle: add space before parenthesis in example macro SubmittingPatches: fix spelling of "git send-email"
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@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ For common questions and answers about the GPL, please see:
Documentation
-------------
+-------------
The Linux kernel source tree has a large range of documents that are
invaluable for learning how to interact with the kernel community. When
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ apply a patch.
If you do not know where you want to start, but you want to look for
some task to start doing to join into the kernel development community,
go to the Linux Kernel Janitor's project:
- http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors
+ http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors
It is a great place to start. It describes a list of relatively simple
problems that need to be cleaned up and fixed within the Linux kernel
source tree. Working with the developers in charge of this project, you
@@ -250,11 +250,6 @@ process is as follows:
release a new -rc kernel every week.
- Process continues until the kernel is considered "ready", the
process should last around 6 weeks.
- - Known regressions in each release are periodically posted to the
- linux-kernel mailing list. The goal is to reduce the length of
- that list to zero before declaring the kernel to be "ready," but, in
- the real world, a small number of regressions often remain at
- release time.
It is worth mentioning what Andrew Morton wrote on the linux-kernel
mailing list about kernel releases:
@@ -263,7 +258,7 @@ mailing list about kernel releases:
preconceived timeline."
4.x.y -stable kernel tree
----------------------------
+-------------------------
Kernels with 3-part versions are -stable kernels. They contain
relatively small and critical fixes for security problems or significant
regressions discovered in a given 4.x kernel.
@@ -286,7 +281,7 @@ documents what kinds of changes are acceptable for the -stable tree, and
how the release process works.
4.x -git patches
-------------------
+----------------
These are daily snapshots of Linus' kernel tree which are managed in a
git repository (hence the name.) These patches are usually released
daily and represent the current state of Linus' tree. They are more
@@ -318,7 +313,7 @@ accepted, or rejected. Most of these patchwork sites are listed at
http://patchwork.kernel.org/.
4.x -next kernel tree for integration tests
----------------------------------------------
+-------------------------------------------
Before updates from subsystem trees are merged into the mainline 4.x
tree, they need to be integration-tested. For this purpose, a special
testing repository exists into which virtually all subsystem trees are