> Seeing as we're on -rc7 already, any reason why we shouldn't hold off
> and simply apply these against LEDs once v6.5 is released?
Each subsystem has its own policies. netdev tends to accept patches
right up until the merge window opens, sometimes even a couple of days
into the merge window for low risk changes. Maybe this is because
netdev is fast moving, two weeks of not merging results in a big
backlog of patches, making it a bumpy restart once merging is started
again. And is some of those late patches breaks something, there is
still 7 weeks to fix it.
Since this is cross subsystems i would expect both subsystems
Maintainers to agree to a merge or not. If you want to be more
conservative than netdev, wait until after the next merge window,
please say so.
If you do decided to wait, you are going to need to create another
stable branch to pull into netdev. I know it is not a huge overhead,
but it is still work, coordination etc.
Andrew
