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| author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2011-03-25 12:17:53 -0600 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2011-03-25 14:30:31 -0600 |
| commit | 5c050fb96380a87a85aad9084b68fdcd2b84c193 (patch) | |
| tree | b1d0bf29716a4e8a0da6d4b9b96bfe9635b58271 /Documentation/development-process/1.Intro | |
| parent | 9cad7962704d617ab1e4ae304baaaa22d727932b (diff) | |
docs: update the development process document
Here's a set of changes updating Documentation/development-process. I have
update kernel releases and relevant statistics, added information for a
couple of tools, zapped some trailing white space, and generally tried to
make it more closely match the current state of affairs.
[Typo fixes from Joe Perches and Nicolas Kaiser incorporated]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/development-process/1.Intro')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/development-process/1.Intro | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/1.Intro b/Documentation/development-process/1.Intro index 8cc2cba2b10..9b614480aa8 100644 --- a/Documentation/development-process/1.Intro +++ b/Documentation/development-process/1.Intro @@ -56,13 +56,13 @@ information on kernel development. 1.2: WHAT THIS DOCUMENT IS ABOUT -The Linux kernel, at over 6 million lines of code and well over 1000 active -contributors, is one of the largest and most active free software projects -in existence. Since its humble beginning in 1991, this kernel has evolved -into a best-of-breed operating system component which runs on pocket-sized -digital music players, desktop PCs, the largest supercomputers in -existence, and all types of systems in between. It is a robust, efficient, -and scalable solution for almost any situation. +The Linux kernel, at over 8 million lines of code and well over 1000 +contributors to each release, is one of the largest and most active free +software projects in existence. Since its humble beginning in 1991, this +kernel has evolved into a best-of-breed operating system component which +runs on pocket-sized digital music players, desktop PCs, the largest +supercomputers in existence, and all types of systems in between. It is a +robust, efficient, and scalable solution for almost any situation. With the growth of Linux has come an increase in the number of developers (and companies) wishing to participate in its development. Hardware @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ This document was written by Jonathan Corbet, corbet@lwn.net. It has been improved by comments from Johannes Berg, James Berry, Alex Chiang, Roland Dreier, Randy Dunlap, Jake Edge, Jiri Kosina, Matt Mackall, Arthur Marsh, Amanda McPherson, Andrew Morton, Andrew Price, Tsugikazu Shibata, and -Jochen Voß. +Jochen Voß. This work was supported by the Linux Foundation; thanks especially to Amanda McPherson, who saw the value of this effort and made it all happen. @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ include: - Everything that was said above about code review applies doubly to closed-source code. Since this code is not available at all, it cannot have been reviewed by the community and will, beyond doubt, have serious - problems. + problems. Makers of embedded systems, in particular, may be tempted to disregard much of what has been said in this section in the belief that they are shipping |