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Various fixes to Documentation/HOWTO
Fix a number of things which have gone somewhat out-of-date over the last few months. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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| 249 | 249 | release a new -rc kernel every week. |
| 250 | 250 | - Process continues until the kernel is considered "ready", the |
| 251 | 251 | process should last around 6 weeks. |
| 252 | - - A list of known regressions present in each -rc release is | |
| 253 | - tracked at the following URI: | |
| 254 | - http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions | |
| 252 | + - Known regressions in each release are periodically posted to the | |
| 253 | + linux-kernel mailing list. The goal is to reduce the length of | |
| 254 | + that list to zero before declaring the kernel to be "ready," but, in | |
| 255 | + the real world, a small number of regressions often remain at | |
| 256 | + release time. | |
| 255 | 257 | |
| 256 | 258 | It is worth mentioning what Andrew Morton wrote on the linux-kernel |
| 257 | 259 | mailing list about kernel releases: |
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| 261 | 263 | |
| 262 | 264 | 2.6.x.y -stable kernel tree |
| 263 | 265 | --------------------------- |
| 264 | -Kernels with 4 digit versions are -stable kernels. They contain | |
| 266 | +Kernels with 4-part versions are -stable kernels. They contain | |
| 265 | 267 | relatively small and critical fixes for security problems or significant |
| 266 | 268 | regressions discovered in a given 2.6.x kernel. |
| 267 | 269 | |
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| 273 | 275 | kernel is the current stable kernel. |
| 274 | 276 | |
| 275 | 277 | 2.6.x.y are maintained by the "stable" team <stable@kernel.org>, and are |
| 276 | -released almost every other week. | |
| 278 | +released as needs dictate. The normal release period is approximately | |
| 279 | +two weeks, but it can be longer if there are no pressing problems. A | |
| 280 | +security-related problem, instead, can cause a release to happen almost | |
| 281 | +instantly. | |
| 277 | 282 | |
| 278 | 283 | The file Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt in the kernel tree |
| 279 | 284 | documents what kinds of changes are acceptable for the -stable tree, and |
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| 298 | 303 | inclusion in mainline. |
| 299 | 304 | |
| 300 | 305 | It is heavily encouraged that all new patches get tested in the -mm tree |
| 301 | -before they are sent to Linus for inclusion in the main kernel tree. | |
| 306 | +before they are sent to Linus for inclusion in the main kernel tree. Code | |
| 307 | +which does not make an appearance in -mm before the opening of the merge | |
| 308 | +window will prove hard to merge into the mainline. | |
| 302 | 309 | |
| 303 | 310 | These kernels are not appropriate for use on systems that are supposed |
| 304 | 311 | to be stable and they are more risky to run than any of the other |
| 305 | 312 | |
| 306 | 313 | |
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| 354 | 361 | - SCSI, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> |
| 355 | 362 | git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git |
| 356 | 363 | |
| 364 | + - x86, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | |
| 365 | + git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git | |
| 366 | + | |
| 357 | 367 | quilt trees: |
| 358 | - - USB, PCI, Driver Core, and I2C, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | |
| 368 | + - USB, Driver Core, and I2C, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | |
| 359 | 369 | kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/ |
| 360 | - - x86-64, partly i386, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> | |
| 361 | - ftp.firstfloor.org:/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/ | |
| 362 | 370 | |
| 363 | 371 | Other kernel trees can be found listed at http://git.kernel.org/ and in |
| 364 | 372 | the MAINTAINERS file. |
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| 392 | 400 | bugme-new mailing list (only new bug reports are mailed here) or to the |
| 393 | 401 | bugme-janitor mailing list (every change in the bugzilla is mailed here) |
| 394 | 402 | |
| 395 | - http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-new | |
| 396 | - http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-janitors | |
| 403 | + http://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-new | |
| 404 | + http://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-janitors | |
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