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Documentation/development-process: add staging & mmotm info

author Randy Dunlap
2010-05-24 00:02:30 UTC
committer Linus Torvalds
2010-05-24 14:30:55 UTC
parent ef0eba477eeb424db97a162eb3a8c887b9c619df

Documentation/development-process: add staging & mmotm info

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>

Documentation/development-process/2.Process +8 -6

diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/2.Process b/Documentation/development-process/2.Process
index 11682b120e8..97726eba610 100644
--- a/Documentation/development-process/2.Process
+++ b/Documentation/development-process/2.Process
@@ -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/
 
@@ -307,6 +303,12 @@ volatility of linux-next tends to make it a difficult development target.
 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