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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710071805380.19695@kivilampi-30.cs.helsinki.fi> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 18:11:44 +0300 (EEST) From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi> To: takano@...-inc.co.jp cc: Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, y-kodama@...t.go.jp Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] TCP: fix lost retransmit detection ...Dropped DaveM from cc, I guess he knows the things I describe below already... :-) On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, David Miller wrote: > From: TAKANO Ryousei <takano@...-inc.co.jp> > Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:51:00 +0900 (JST) > > > BTW, what is difference among netdev-2.6, netdev-2.6 is for network device drivers (stuff under drivers/net) > net-2.6 (net-2.6.24), and > > tcp-2.6? I am not familiar with linux kernel development process. > > net-2.6.24 tree is current new development > > net-2.6 tree is only bug fixes > > tcp-2.6 is an old abandonded tree that holds lots of old > TCP work, most of which is merged already, but one part > (my RB-Tree SACK patches) are not integrated yet. In addition, when Linus releases a new kernel (2.6.23), the net-2.6.24 becomes net-2.6 (the old one ceases to exist). At some point of 2.6.24-rc series, net-2.6.25 gets opened by DaveM, usually it's not available right after closure of 2.6.24 merge window. ...Then again, the trees are again rotated when a next official release is made... -- i. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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