“Andrew Morton is well-known in the kernel community for doing a
wide variety of different tasks: maintaining the -mm tree for
patches that may be on their way to the mainline, reviewing lots of
patches, giving presentations about working with the community,
and, in general, handling lots of important and visible kernel
development chores. Things are changing in the way he does things,
though, so we asked him a few questions by email. He responded at
length about the -mm tree and how that is changing with the advent
of linux-next, kernel quality, and what folks can do to help make
the kernel better…”