[PULL] at91 init factorize

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Tue Aug 2 08:38:15 EDT 2011


On 16:12 Sun 31 Jul     , Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 05:44:17AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > let this pull go and theere was no announch that we can not send pull during
> > the merge windows so if there is such rule we must write a patch and put it
> > in the ARM tree to specified the ARM merge window otherwise the merge normal
> > merge window prime
> 
> Err, what?  That doesn't parse.
> 
> Look - it's a requirement that code for the merge window is in linux-next
> prior to the merge window opening.
> 
> What that means is that if code has not been in the linux-next tree prior
> to the merge window opening, it doesn't get merged during the window, and
> has to wait until the end of the merge window.
> 
> Moreover, new code must not be added to linux-next _during_ the merge
> window by anyone (apart from bug fixes) as that can disrupt sorting out
> how trees are merged into Linus' tree.
> 
> So, the rule has been for years: code not in linux-next does not get
> merged during the merge window.
> 
> There's nothing new there.
Agreed 
this patch series was in the next before for sometimes so I did not see the
issue to merge it

Best Regards,
J.



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