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

Hi Giovanni Thanks for these explanations! Just one correction below. Am 2015-12-08 11:56, schrieb Giovanni Gherdovich:

I am not a kernel developer but I think I can answer this.

This is how I understand it:

Short version:

-next is a very special Linux branch managed by Linus Torvalds

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