From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/86] PATA fixes Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:48:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20091203.124804.168589603.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4B1771CD.3090409@garzik.org> <20091203165947.13841802@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B17F7E4.9040302@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54194 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755186AbZLCUr6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:47:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B17F7E4.9040302@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: jeff@garzik.org Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jeff Garzik Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:39:48 -0500 > On 12/03/2009 11:59 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >>> The merge window is upon us, which by strict rules means that anything >>> not already in libata-dev.git#upstream needs to wait until 2.6.34. >> >> Not quite yet - Linus hasn't said "go" > > He rarely if ever says "go." The kernel X is released, and people > send pull requests to Linus for X+1. He typically merges immediately, > but does not push out the first set of merges for a few days. I don't think he even starts pulling until 1 or 2 days later. I personally never send him a pull request until a day or two in.