Re: [PATCH 00/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver - Phase II

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Thu Mar 17 2011 - 18:58:43 EST


On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:45:37 PDT, Greg KH said:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:39:27PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> > Is that Linus's merge window, or your window to freeze a for-linus tree?
>
> My window.
>
> Linus's merge window is for the subsystem maintainers. Everything that
> is to be sent during Linus's merge window had to be in the linux-next
> tree for a bit of time before the merge window opens.

OK, that's what I suspected, but wasn't 100% sure, because..

> I also posted the "my tree is now closed for .39 stuff" message to the
> devel mailing list, so there shouldn't have been any questions about
> this.

some of us are only on lkml, where usually it's Linus who gets to say
"The 2.6.N merge window is closed".

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