On 02/19/13 16:54, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 19.02.2013 23:54, schrieb Randy Dunlap: >> On 02/19/2013 02:36 AM, Alexander Holler wrote: >>> Am 19.02.2013 10:54, schrieb richard -rw- weinberger: >>>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Holler >>>> <hol...@ahsoftware.de> wrote: >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> until now I could successfully suppress my curiosity about those >>>>> tip:foo >>>>> messages, but as the bot (or one of them) has now catched me too, I >>>>> want to >>>>> ask what it is. >>>>> >>>>> Searching for "tip(-)bot" or similiar doesn't reveal some useful info >>>>> (for >>>>> obvious reasons). Could someone give me an URL to source or >>>>> documentation >>>>> about that tool so that I can enlight myself about it's meaning? >>>> >>>> AFAIK tip-bot is a set of shell scripts used by _T_glx, _I_ngo and >>>> _P_eter. :) >>>> >>> >>> So messages from tip-bot are just acknowledgments (like those from Greg) >>> that a patch has found it's way into one of the trees, with the >>> difference that tip-bot sends those acknowledgments to lkml too, whereas >>> Greg's scripts send them only to involved parties and not the lkml? >> >> Yes, that is my understanding of it. >> > > Thanks a lot for clarification. > > In the meanwhile I've found an article at lwn about the kernel development > process which lists many of the git repositories used by various maintainers. > And that list includes tip. ;) > > So the reason for my ignorance was that I didn't know that tip is actually > the name of a git repository used by the x86 maintainers.
I can understand that. The kernel tree MAINTAINERS file says for X86: X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT) M: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> M: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> M: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> M: x...@kernel.org T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/core S: Maintained F: Documentation/x86/ F: arch/x86/ -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
