On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 11:33:02PM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote: > On 4/4/2018 11:09 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 08:01:11PM -0700, Dennis Dalessandro wrote: > >>Hi Jason and Doug, > >> > >>Here are most of our updates for 4.17. I will follow this up with a small > >>16B series then I still have a few more patches that are waiting on > >>some more thorough testing. Should be able to get them on the list tomrrow or > >>Friday at the latest, wanted to get these out now. I don't think anything > >>is really that scary in here. > > > >Probably not going to happen for 4.17. > > > >As a general rule series that are not on the list before the merge > >window opens are not going to be make it. Linus discourages doing > >things at the last minute as it encourages bad behavior that reduces > >release quality. > > 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. 'last minute' was sending series during the rc6 time period. After release is 'too late' Jason