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including vs. merging?
including vs. merging?
Posted Nov 16, 2004 4:23 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: including vs. merging? by roelofs
Parent article: Kernel release status
"Merging" as in "merging into the mainline." One can say that the patch has been merged into -mm, but, in kernel jargon, "merge" usually refers to the mainline kernel. I suppose I could have been a bit more clear about that.
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including vs. merging?
Posted Nov 16, 2004 15:50 UTC (Tue) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link]
Did I miss something? I didn't realize Andrew had taken over the mainline kernel already.