On Wednesday, March 08, 2017, Russell King wrote: > > Was there something wrong with them that they would not go into 4.11? > > They were submitted way too late. > > * The merge window opened on Sunday, 19th February. > > * The patches were submitted on Thursday, 16th February just before 6pm > my local time. > > * The last linux-next grab of trees before the merge window happened > occured around 11pm my local time on Thursday, 16th February. > > There's a general requirement that everything for a merge window should be > in linux-next before the merge window. > > I generally want material for the merge window to be ready a week before > the merge window opens to allow for proper testing and any re-work that > comes out of that testing. > > In any case, anything submitted from Thursday through to the Sunday when > the merge window opens _definitely_ is not going to get queued for the > merge window unless there are exceptional (eg, important bug fix) reasons > to do so. > > So, it basically missed the time slot for merging new material, sorry. Well damn, that answers it. Thank you for the detailed explanation. Cheers Chris
