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diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO index d5a699d5a551..1f345da28ec5 100644 --- a/Documentation/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO @@ -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 |