Perhaps we should modify Greg KH's "be-all, end-all document" on "HOWTO do Linux kernel development" then... you've contributed a boatload of work to the kernel since as far back as 2006, but I'm a newbie who just works in an isolated subsystem... people like me need a reliable and authoritative cheat-sheet to go by... I think you believe I should ask for this to be pulled only during a merge window. Since this patch doesn't involve new functionality, or even any functionality, it seems like pull-fodder anytime after it is vetted, based on Greg's HOWTO... My original intent on posting to this thread was to let christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx know that I saw and appreciate his review and the good patch he supplied. -Mike On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 08:51:57AM -0500, Mike Marshall wrote: >> I think I understand what you're saying, except for this part: >> >> > would have been secretly disapointed at your lack of >> > courage in my heart but it would have been normal and fine. >> > What I'm saying is that for some people the cut off for 4.10 happens > the week or two before 4.9 is released. I'm sending bugfixes and they > still push them out to 4.11. It annoys me, secretly. > > >> I'm pretty sure that Linus won't accept a pull request from me >> at the wrong time and that I won't send one at the wrong time >> on purpose. > > Linus pulls lots of things that make him unhappy. If he didn't > compromise he would go mad. > >> >> I've been laboring under the belief that the rc period is when >> we "push only patches that do not include new functionalities", >> and I would have thought that stripping out a few lines of dead >> code would be appropriate then. >> > > No. -rc is for fixing regressions only. If it's a fix for a bug that > has *always* been there, then think carefully about how important it is > because that's not a regression fix. If it's a bug fix, but it's not a > regression fix and it's not critical then wait. Non-bugfixes should > only go in during the merge window. > > regards, > dan carpenter > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
