Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: n900: Include adp1653 device

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 08:38:57AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> [160121 02:19]:
> > On Thu 2016-01-21 09:29:10, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > The merge window is open, which is when development code that was merged
> > > in good time prior to the merge window is sent upstream to Linus.  Linux
> > > maintainers may choose not to merge new code into their tree to avoid
> > > disrupting the utility of linux-next until the merge window has
> > > closed.
> > 
> > Support for new hardware is normally allowed after -rc1.
> 
> Yeah most maintainers avoid looking at new code until -rc1. Or until
> regresssions are out of the way. So patience please. Fixes are
> welcome any time though.

Indeed.  However, unlike Pavel's comment, many maintainers choose not
to merge code for new hardware until the merge window - it's very rare
that support for new hardware is merged during the -rc phase.

If it were otherwise, I would've been able to get the Hummingboard 2
DTS patches in, or the etnaviv team would've been able to get the
Etnaviv GPU DRM driver in during the 4.4-rc cycle, or the Dove PMU
driver, or... etc.

Practically, new code waits for merge windows, because no one wants
to de-stabilise the progression of the -rc series with new code, and
Linus wants to see -rc merges fairly quiet and be mostly bug fixes
so he can feel good about a final release around -rc6 to -rc7 time.

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