On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 08:49:19AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 5:06 AM, James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I've gathered together some of the more important fixes that it'd be > > good to get into 4.10. They're mostly build fixes, with a few runtime > > fixes too. > > So quite frankly, I've been ignoring MIPS pull requests lately, > because I got fed up with the "never honors the merge window" part. > > Not taking a pull request is the only way I can really show my > displeasure with the fact that area consistently ignores all the > release timing. > > I'll happily take a MIPS pull request during the next merge window. > But it needs to actually do the right thing: not just coming in at a > timely point (not at the last day of the merge window or some time > very late in the rc series), but also that it hasn't just been > rebased, it's actually been in -next etc. > > Of course, sending pull requests for the merge window *early* is fine, > so sending me stuff for the upcoming merge window for 4.11 this week > is just showing that things are all lines up in time (still assuming > the -next thing etc). > > But until I see that kind of "maintainer actually bothers to work with > the right process", I'm going to continue to ignore MIPS pull > requests. Fair enough. I'm only applying fixes for 4.11 now anyway, and I was already planning to send the pull request early in the merge window. Cheers James
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