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author | Peter Loeffler <peter.loeffler@guruz.at> | 2016-01-30 15:53:53 -0500 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-02-10 15:19:48 -0500 |
commit | 5645a717c6ee61e67d38aa9f15cb9db074e1e99d (patch) | |
tree | a6cd75ee409b278807a40fd256d80c51a83d20f3 /Documentation/HOWTO | |
parent | 6c01ced75c40d8755371cde79bf89c8d3ac8915b (diff) |
Documentation: HOWTO: remove obsolete info about regression postings
corbet@lwn.net told me that these regression postings haven't happened for
several years. So i think we can remove it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Loeffler <peter.loeffler@guruz.at>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/HOWTO')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/HOWTO | 7 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO index d5a699d5a551..ef2ff1e9d3e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO | |||
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ apply a patch. | |||
187 | If you do not know where you want to start, but you want to look for | 187 | If you do not know where you want to start, but you want to look for |
188 | some task to start doing to join into the kernel development community, | 188 | some task to start doing to join into the kernel development community, |
189 | go to the Linux Kernel Janitor's project: | 189 | go to the Linux Kernel Janitor's project: |
190 | http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors | 190 | http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors |
191 | It is a great place to start. It describes a list of relatively simple | 191 | It is a great place to start. It describes a list of relatively simple |
192 | problems that need to be cleaned up and fixed within the Linux kernel | 192 | problems that need to be cleaned up and fixed within the Linux kernel |
193 | source tree. Working with the developers in charge of this project, you | 193 | source tree. Working with the developers in charge of this project, you |
@@ -250,11 +250,6 @@ process is as follows: | |||
250 | release a new -rc kernel every week. | 250 | release a new -rc kernel every week. |
251 | - Process continues until the kernel is considered "ready", the | 251 | - Process continues until the kernel is considered "ready", the |
252 | process should last around 6 weeks. | 252 | process should last around 6 weeks. |
253 | - Known regressions in each release are periodically posted to the | ||
254 | linux-kernel mailing list. The goal is to reduce the length of | ||
255 | that list to zero before declaring the kernel to be "ready," but, in | ||
256 | the real world, a small number of regressions often remain at | ||
257 | release time. | ||
258 | 253 | ||
259 | It is worth mentioning what Andrew Morton wrote on the linux-kernel | 254 | It is worth mentioning what Andrew Morton wrote on the linux-kernel |
260 | mailing list about kernel releases: | 255 | mailing list about kernel releases: |