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Message-ID: <20160816185320.GB6513@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 2016 20:53:20 +0200
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] [PATCH v4 00/26] Delete CURRENT_TIME and
 CURRENT_TIME_SEC macros

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:18:52AM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> Thank you for the suggestion.
> 
> > Who are you execting to pull this huge patch series?
> 
> The last pull request was addressed to Al as per Arnd's suggestion.
> I'm not completely sure who should it be addressed to.
> 
> > Why not just introduce the new api call, wait for that to be merged, and
> > then push the individual patches through the different subsystems?
> > After half of those get ignored, then provide a single set of patches
> > that can go through Andrew or my trees.
> 
> Arnd and I tried to do this a few ways.
> 
> We can try to introduce the api first like you suggest.
> 
> There are a few Acks already on the patches.
> And, patches 2-5 also need to be merged through some common tree like
> yours or Andrew's as you suggest.
> 
> So, if everyone is ok, I could do the following:
> 
> 1. Post patches 1-5 for rc-2.

-rc2 is already released, and we aren't adding new apis this late in the
release cycle, sorry.

> 2. Post all other patches to respective maintainers after rc-2
> 3. Then after patches get ignored or merged, post remaining as a
> series for you or Andrew to pick up.

The apis need to be aimed for 4.9-rc1, it's too late for 4.8, sorry.

greg k-h
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