[PATCH v4 0/3] ARM: l2c: add l2c support for RZ/A1

[Chris Brandt]

On Wednesday, March 08, 2017, Russell King wrote:
> > Was there something wrong with them that they would not go into 4.11?
> 
> They were submitted way too late.
> 
> * The merge window opened on Sunday, 19th February.
> 
> * The patches were submitted on Thursday, 16th February just before 6pm
>   my local time.
> 
> * The last linux-next grab of trees before the merge window happened
>   occured around 11pm my local time on Thursday, 16th February.
> 
> There's a general requirement that everything for a merge window should be
> in linux-next before the merge window.
> 
> I generally want material for the merge window to be ready a week before
> the merge window opens to allow for proper testing and any re-work that
> comes out of that testing.
> 
> In any case, anything submitted from Thursday through to the Sunday when
> the merge window opens _definitely_ is not going to get queued for the
> merge window unless there are exceptional (eg, important bug fix) reasons
> to do so.
> 
> So, it basically missed the time slot for merging new material, sorry.

Well damn, that answers it.

Thank you for the detailed explanation.

Cheers

Chris