On 09/01/2024 16:02, Huacai Chen wrote: >>>>> Applied to loongarch-next, thanks. >>>>> >>>> >>>> It's merge window, why do you apply patches? For which cycle? >>> I'm sorry I forgot to reply to the email when I applied patches, the >>> patches have already been pulled in linux-next some days before. >> >> Really? I cannot find them on next-20240108, so what happened? > Hmm, I applied patches two days ago, and they were only pulled in next-20240109. Two days ago is weekend, so basically one day ago and definitely not "some days before". Anyway two days ago merge window started, so it means you applied them during the merge window or immediately before. That's not good. Patches should be in linux-next BEFORE. > >> >> Are you aware that patches should be in next for "few next cycles" >> minimum (which means few days or even a week)? > Thank you for your reminder, when I sent my first PR, my mentor had > already told me this. So I will wait until next week to send PR for > this series. In the future, please be sure that all your patches for next PR are for several days in your for-next branch, thus at least for few linux-next cycles. Best regards, Krzysztof