about submitting patches [old subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] staging: brcm80211: align common driver code]
Arend van Spriel
arend at broadcom.com
Thu Feb 3 19:23:05 UTC 2011
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:17:26 +0100, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 08:14:29PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> Is this a typo or are linux-next and linus tree indeed one and the same?
>
> No, they are quite different.
>
> linux-next collects a lot of different trees, including the ones that
> are marked to go to Linus for this current release, and for the "next"
> release, to handle the merge issues and for testing.
>
> See the linux-next FAQ for details if you have more questions about it.
>
> hope this helps,
>
It does. I will update our internal knowledge base (ie. wiki) on this
so you don't need to answer these questions again (to us at least ;-).
> greg k-h
>
Gr. AvS
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