  Feature: Events  Kernel and filesystem talks at OLS day two
By David 'cdlu' Graham on June 29, 2007 (9:00:00 PM)  Share   
Print    Comments     Greg Kroah-Hartman kicked off the second
day of the 9th annual Ottawa Linux Symposium with a talk
entitled "Linux Kernel Development - How, What, How fast, and
Who?" to a solidly packed main room with an audience of more
than 400 people.    Andrew Morton was selected to maintain the
stable tree while Linus worked on the development tree, Kroah-
Hartman says, and explained how Morton merges all unstable
patches into a tree called the -mm tree, which stands for memory
management, Morton's historical subtree and Linus actually
maintains the stable kernel tree. While they will never admit
it, says Kroah-Hartman, they now work effectively the opposite
of how they intended.  Patches are submitted up the previously
mentioned hierarchy and each person who reviews the patch and
sends it up puts their name in the signed-off-by field of the
patch. The large chart Kroah-Hartma