linux-kernel - Re: netdev-2.6.git frozen

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Date:	Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:52:13 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: netdev-2.6.git frozen

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Similar to David's recent announcement, netdev-2.6.git is now closed to 
> new features.
> 
> Though really, [my fault] I should have posted this as soon as the merge 
> window opened.  The stuff that goes into each new release, when the 
> merge window opens, should be stuff that has already been through a 
> round of testing in -mm.
> 
> The updates presented in netdev -- e100, e1000, ixgb and sky2 -- will go 
> upstream tomorrow.  Everything else will be fixed.

s/fixed/fixes/

I wish "everything" was fixed, after tomorrow :)


> And the message for the future is:  don't wait until the merge window 
> opens, to submit your test.  Doing so means it doesn't get the normal 

s/test/code/

Apparently I need my morning Pepsi.


> amount of testing and review, and is thus discouraged.

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