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2011-03-25docs: update the development process documentJonathan Corbet1-89/+88
Here's a set of changes updating Documentation/development-process. I have update kernel releases and relevant statistics, added information for a couple of tools, zapped some trailing white space, and generally tried to make it more closely match the current state of affairs. [Typo fixes from Joe Perches and Nicolas Kaiser incorporated] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
2010-11-18Documentation/development-process: more staging infoAndres Salomon1-6/+19
Document things that I would've liked to have known when submitting a driver to gregkh for staging. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-18Documentation/development-process: use -next trees instead of stagingAndres Salomon1-4/+4
This is confusing, as we have "staging" trees for drivers/staging. Call them -next trees. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-24Documentation/development-process: add staging & mmotm infoRandy Dunlap1-6/+8
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>
2010-05-24Documentation/development-process: add maintainers and git infoRandy Dunlap1-3/+12
Add info on maintainers and persistent posting. Update git home page. 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>
2008-10-16Add the development process documentJonathan Corbet1-0/+459
This is an extended document intended to help interested developers, their managers, and their employers work with the kernel development process. This work was supported by the Linux Foundation. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>