netdev - Re: Difference between Net and Net-Next

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Date:	Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:06:27 +0800
From:	Yi Li <lovelylich@...il.com>
To:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Difference between Net and Net-Next

于 2013年03月28日 14:28, Richard Cochran 写道:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 05:02:28PM +0000, Jim Baxter wrote:
>> How do you decide which changes should go into "net" and which ones go into "net-
>> next"?
>>
>> At a guess I would think bug fixes are in "net" and feature changes into
>> "net-next" but it is not obvious from the commit log.
> I'll go out on a limb and try to explain this:
>
> net-next - changes for the next merge window
> net      - bug fixes and cleanups for the current release candidate
>
> HTR (hope thats right),
> Richard
>
net-next - new features added in development and *experimental*
net - features(thought as steady and come frome net-next tree) and bug 
fixes, can be merged into linux.git(which is the tree below) by Linus.
linux - the mainline release.

That's my opinion.


regards,
Yi

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