Re: [PATCH for-next 00/13] IB/hfi1,core: Driver updates for 4.17

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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



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