Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 00/26] Staging: batman-adv

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 05:32:00PM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> [...]
> > > The merge window is already closed? v2.6.34 was released 6 days ago. Or
> > > do you mean that your merge window for staging is closed?
> > 
> > The merge window is for the subsystem maintainers to send stuff to
> > Linus.  That stuff must have already been in the linux-next tree for a
> > bit to test it out and ensure that it doesn't break anyone.
> > 
> > So that means that you need to get things to the subsystem maintainers a
> > week or so before the merge window opens up if you want to see it go
> > into the next kernel release.
> > 
> > And yes, this means the merge window for the staging tree for new
> > features is now closed.  Only bugfixes will be accepted for .35 from now
> > on, but I can easily queue up stuff for .36, I just have to wait until
> > .35-rc1 is out before I can add it to my public tree for inclusion in
> > the linux-next tree.
> > 
> > Hope this explains things a bit better.
> 
> Yes, helped a lot :)

Great, I got your patches, and will queue them up starting next week
when the .35-rc1 kernel is out.

thanks,

greg k-h