From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/86] PATA fixes Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:39:48 -0500 Message-ID: <4B17F7E4.9040302@garzik.org> References: <20091125170218.5446.13513.sendpatchset@localhost> <4B1771CD.3090409@garzik.org> <20091203165947.13841802@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f226.google.com ([209.85.217.226]:33306 "EHLO mail-gx0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751429AbZLCRjn (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:39:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091203165947.13841802@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. The stuff pushed to Linus for kernel X+1 should have already been living in linux-next (libata-dev.git#NEXT, to us). > The bits that probably should be delayed a bit more (if any) IMHO are the > 32bit enables for hardware that doesn't use 32bit by default on the > drivers/ide stack, and tweaks for obscure old hardware that won't get > much testing. Agreed mostly... I still want to push fixes even if for obscure hardware. Jeff