On Wed, 2018-04-04 at 23:33 -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote: > I think that's a fine policy, and usually try to stick to that myself, > but got behind this time by a couple days. To be fair though, I wouldn't > call this last minute. There is still a week and a half of merge window. > I do realize there is unfortunate timing with OFA falling in the middle > of the merge window though. Usually kernel maintainers are busy during the merge window with addressing merge conflicts and with analyzing and fixing regressions. I don't know any maintainer who accepts new patches during the merge window. Most maintainers get irritated if patches that are posted during the merge window and ignore such patches. Bart.