On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 16:52 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 08:21:35AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > Thanks, I've update the author, added a Cc to ћtable and pushed it out to > > > the core-for-3.17 branch. > > > > This fixes a bug in the 3.16 kernel. Why wouldn't it be sent to Linus > > for inclusion in the final release there? > > I'm only collecting patches for scsi, but James remains formal maintainer, so > I don't send anything to Linus. Given that delays between me committing > things, them getting picked up by James and finally making it to Linux-next I > don't feel like another for-3.16 branch at this point is easily workable. It's been remarkably current, I believe ... it's already up to date. However, we only have 2 -next builds between now and the anticipated 3.16 release (unless Linus does another -rc) so there's not enough time for a patch that isn't already in (although this one is). > If James wants to cherry pick it and send it on at this time that might > still work fine, but he seems fairly busy. I'll pull it out and refactor the tree. James _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
