What are the differences between the -next tree and the -mm tree?

[Sudip Mukherjee]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 02:37:23PM +0100, Giovanni Gherdovich wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Silvan Jegen <me at sillymon.ch> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I think it is Stephen Rothwell that manages linux-next (look at the
> author of the tags here[0]).
> >
> >
> > [0] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
> 
> Right, thanks!

Yes, Stephen Rothwell will manage linux-next and when Stephen is not
available then someone might volunteer to take that responsibility. Like
Mark Brown created linux-next for few days in last week.

linux-next is usually used as the testing ground of almost all patches
which will be sent to Linus. Almost all the merge conflicts, build failures are
solved in linux-next before the patches are sent.

regards
sudip