linux-kernel - Re: provide more common DMA API functions V2

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Message-ID: <20150818160723.0569197f@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:07:23 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, arnd@...db.de,
	linux@....linux.org.uk, catalin.marinas@....com,
	will.deacon@....com, ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp, monstr@...str.eu,
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Subject: Re: provide more common DMA API functions V2

Hi Andrew,

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:53:15 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:45:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I'll merge these 5 patches for 4.3.  That means I'll release them into
> > > > linux-next after 4.2 is released.
> > > 
> > > So you only add for-4.3 code to -next after 4.2 is odd?  Isn't thast the
> > > wrong way around?
> > 
> > Linus will be releasing 4.2 in 1-2 weeks and until then, linux-next is
> > supposed to contain only 4.2 material.  Once 4.2 is released,
> > linux-next is open for 4.3 material.
> 
> Hmm, I'm pretty sure there's tons of 4.3 material in linux-next at the
> moment, at least I got merge warning messages from Stephen about
> some yesterday.

Yeah, we are at v4.2-rc7 so linux-next is full of stuff to be merged by
Linus for v4.3. Nothing for v4.4 should be in linux-next until after
v4.3-rc1 is released in 3-4 weeks i.e. after the next merge window
closes.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
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