From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware/efi: export a routine to retrieve efi-variables by GUID Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:22:46 -0700 Message-ID: <20110319002246.GB14249@suse.de> References: <20110318221606.26841.92271.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <20110318225016.GB15921@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dan Williams Cc: Dave Jiang , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jacek.danecki@intel.com, ed.ciechanowski@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dmilburn@redhat.com, edmund.nadolski@intel.com, Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:10:10PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > I needed all patches in linux-next _before_ the merge window opened to > > be able to accept it. > > Yes, I know, and as dmaengine maintainer I also hate being ambushed by > last minute patches, but now I am unfortunately one of those annoying > people on the other side of the coin. Then you should know better than to try to go around the well-known rules :) > The review has been intermittent until very recently. Given that > fact, James was understandably not ready to take it into > drivers/scsi/. So the thought was to leave time for the review to pan > out and then attempt a post -rc1 merge through scsi or staging. There are no "post -rc1" merges for staging, it follows the same rules as the rest of the kernel. Which means that you will have to wait for .40 before it can be merged, sorry. > > So, sorry, it will have to wait until .40. > > Please send me the isci driver and I will be glad to queue it up for > > staging for that kernel. > > We will submit a revised driver in the next few weeks. Fine, I'll queue it up for .40 then. greg k-h