netdev - RE: When will net-next merge with linux-next?

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Message-ID: <BLUPR03MB14104FD16924FB8327BD9AA8BF8A0@BLUPR03MB1410.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2016 01:58:50 +0000
From:	Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
To:	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Subject: RE: When will net-next merge with linux-next?

> From: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org [mailto:gregkh@...uxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 23:06
> To: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>; netdev@...r.kernel.org; KY
> Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
> Subject: Re: When will net-next merge with linux-next?
> 
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:11:34AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> > I'm wondering whether (and when) step 2 will happen in the next 2 weeks,
> > that is, before the tag 4.6-rc1 is made.
> > If not, I guess I'll miss 4.6?
> 
> You missed 4.6 as your patch was not in any of our trees a few days
> before 4.5 was released, sorry.
> 
> greg k-h
Hi Greg,
Thanks for the reply!

My patch has to go in net-next first, but even today's mainline and net-next
haven't had the supporting patches in the VMBus driver, so I can't post my
patch to net-next even today  -- it seems it's doomed to need 2 major
release cycles to push a feature that makes changes to 2 subsystems? :-(

I guess Greg will send a pull request to Linus within the next 1~2 weeks, so
the supporting VMBus patches will be in the mainline after that.

Hi David,
May I know when you'll merge with the mainline kernel and how
frequently do you usually do it?

Thanks,
-- Dexuan