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From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation•org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
To: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft•com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft•com>
Subject: Re: When will net-next merge with linux-next?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:40:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160316024058.GA29922@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLUPR03MB14104FD16924FB8327BD9AA8BF8A0@BLUPR03MB1410.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 01:58:50AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> > From: gregkh@linuxfoundation•org [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation•org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 23:06
> > To: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft•com>
> > Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>; netdev@vger•kernel.org; KY
> > Srinivasan <kys@microsoft•com>; Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft•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? :-(

Usually, yes, unless you talk to us ahead of time so we can coordinate,
or have one of the patches go through a different tree (i.e. all in one
tree.).

Just wait until 4.6-rc1 is out and all will be fine.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-16  2:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-14  6:09 When will net-next merge with linux-next? Dexuan Cui
2016-03-14 16:21 ` gregkh
2016-03-15 11:11   ` Dexuan Cui
2016-03-15 15:05     ` gregkh
2016-03-16  1:58       ` Dexuan Cui
2016-03-16  2:40         ` gregkh [this message]
2016-03-16  2:58           ` Dexuan Cui

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