From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:39571 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751962AbcCZBBn (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2016 21:01:43 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 01:01:40 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Martin Brandenburg , Mike Marshall , linux-fsdevel Subject: Re: Orangefs, v4.5 and the merge window... Message-ID: <20160326010140.GN17997@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20160311214745.GT17997@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20160326002116.GK17997@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 05:28:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Gaah. I'm going to be traveling starting tomorrow night (red-eye) and I was > going to cut rc1 tomorrow and then really hope for a calm rc2 week. > > At the same time, is live to get this finally merged, about a year after I > originally thought were would. So I guess I'll take it, even if I hate the > timing. Umm... IIRC, there had been precedents when self-contained driver got merged later than -rc1. Might make more sense than rushing the merge in the last day of the window, especially since you are travelling... > There are zero changes outside orangefs itself, and obviously the > Makefile/KConfig file to get it all enabled? Yes.