From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34977 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750822AbcHPSxL (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:53:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 20:53:20 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Deepa Dinamani Cc: Linux FS-devel Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Arnd Bergmann , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , "Theodore Ts'o" , Alexander Viro , y2038 Mailman List , Andreas Dilger , Adrian Hunter , Anna Schumaker , Brian Uchino , ceph-devel , Chris Mason , Changman Lee , Artem Bityutskiy , David Sterba , Evgeniy Dushistov , Alex Elder , Eric Paris , Hiral Patel , Ilya Dryomov , Jan Kara , Jaegeuk Kim , Josef Bacik , "James E.J. Bottomley" , jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, Joel Becker , John Stultz , linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-btrfs , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, "Linux F2FS DEV, Mailing List" , linux-mtd , Linux NFS Mailing List , Linux SCSI List , lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org, "Martin K. Petersen" , Mark Fasheh , ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, Paul Moore , Sage Weil , Steve French , Dave Kleikamp , Suma Ramars , Trond Myklebust , "Yan, Zheng" Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] [PATCH v4 00/26] Delete CURRENT_TIME and CURRENT_TIME_SEC macros Message-ID: <20160816185320.GB6513@kroah.com> References: <1471128518-24075-1-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com> <20160815162312.GA19794@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:18:52AM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote: > Thank you for the suggestion. > > > Who are you execting to pull this huge patch series? > > The last pull request was addressed to Al as per Arnd's suggestion. > I'm not completely sure who should it be addressed to. > > > Why not just introduce the new api call, wait for that to be merged, and > > then push the individual patches through the different subsystems? > > After half of those get ignored, then provide a single set of patches > > that can go through Andrew or my trees. > > Arnd and I tried to do this a few ways. > > We can try to introduce the api first like you suggest. > > There are a few Acks already on the patches. > And, patches 2-5 also need to be merged through some common tree like > yours or Andrew's as you suggest. > > So, if everyone is ok, I could do the following: > > 1. Post patches 1-5 for rc-2. -rc2 is already released, and we aren't adding new apis this late in the release cycle, sorry. > 2. Post all other patches to respective maintainers after rc-2 > 3. Then after patches get ignored or merged, post remaining as a > series for you or Andrew to pick up. The apis need to be aimed for 4.9-rc1, it's too late for 4.8, sorry. greg k-h