Re: [ANNOUNCE] scsi patch queue tree updated

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 04:11 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 04:32:01PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-08-01 at 05:20 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > I've pushed out updates to both the core-for-3.17 and drivers-for-3.17
> > > branches.
> > 
> > So I'm afraid we missed the last -next build on these, so they can't go
> > in with the early SCSI pull.  I'm open to doing one mid merge window,
> > but Linus tends not to like that.
> 
> I don't think there are any hard and fast rules.

True, but the hardest of our semi-liquid rules is nothing in the merge
window that wasn't in -next first.

> The core-for-3.17 commit is a trivial printk specifier regression fix for
> something introduced in the 3.17 merge window, so pulling it in is
> an absolute non-brainer.
> 
> The drivers side are a bunch of smaller fixes for iscsi and pm8001 which
> never have been a problem to put in near the end of the merge window,
> especially if they have a few more days linux-next exposure in
> Linux-next even after the 3.16 release.  They absolutely would be
> candidates for a second pull even if they'd miss the first pull.

OK, since I have to do a second pull anyway we might as well follow the
rules.

James