Re: [PATCH 00/86] PATA fixes

[Jeff Garzik]

On 12/03/2009 11:59 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The merge window is upon us, which by strict rules means that anything
> > not already in libata-dev.git#upstream needs to wait until 2.6.34.
>
> Not quite yet - Linus hasn't said "go"

He rarely if ever says "go."  The kernel X is released, and people send 
pull requests to Linus for X+1.  He typically merges immediately, but 
does not push out the first set of merges for a few days.

The stuff pushed to Linus for kernel X+1 should have already been living 
in linux-next (libata-dev.git#NEXT, to us).


> The bits that probably should be delayed a bit more (if any) IMHO are the
> 32bit enables for hardware that doesn't use 32bit by default on the
> drivers/ide stack, and tweaks for obscure old hardware that won't get
> much testing.

Agreed mostly...  I still want to push fixes even if for obscure hardware.

	Jeff



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