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Documentation/development-process: add staging & mmotm info
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Update explanation of mmotm.
Add explanation of drivers/staging/.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored and Linus Torvalds committed May 24, 2010
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Expand Up @@ -267,12 +267,8 @@ an appropriate subsystem tree or be sent directly to Linus. In a typical
development cycle, approximately 10% of the patches going into the mainline
get there via -mm.

The current -mm patch can always be found from the front page of

http://kernel.org/

Those who want to see the current state of -mm can get the "-mm of the
moment" tree, found at:
The current -mm patch is available in the "mmotm" (-mm of the moment)
directory at:

http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

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See http://lwn.net/Articles/289013/ for more information on this topic, and
stay tuned; much is still in flux where linux-next is involved.

Besides the mmotm and linux-next trees, the kernel source tree now contains
the drivers/staging/ directory and many sub-directories for drivers or
filesystems that are on their way to being added to the kernel tree
proper, but they remain in drivers/staging/ while they still need more
work.


2.5: TOOLS

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