linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: rebase of the jdelvare-hwmon quilt series

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Date:	Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:36:01 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...il.com>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: rebase of the jdelvare-hwmon quilt series

On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:27:59 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> As Paul said, new material should not enter linux-next until after -rc1
> is released.  In fact, every time Linus opens a merge window, I send an
> email to lkml and the linux-next list saying just that.  I also often add
> that message to the top of my daily release announcements (though I
> forgot during this merge window).
> 
> This restriction is imposed so that maintainers still getting their code
> into the current merge window are not distracted by reports of problems
> in linux-next to do with code that will not be merged in this merge
> window.

Of course, this does not apply to bug fixes etc.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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