[RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 03:02:49AM +0100, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
> At least akpm did approve the LZO update for inclusion into 3.7, but the code
> still has not been merged into the main tree.
>   > On 2012-10-09 21:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
>   > [...]
>   > The changes look OK to me.  Please ask Stephen to include the tree in
>   > linux-next, for a 3.7 merge.
> 
> Well, this probably means I have done a rather poor marketing.

I assume this code is sitting in *your* tree?  How do you think it gets
into mainline?

There is no automatic way that code from linux-next gets merged into
mainline.  That is up to the tree owner to make happen, either by getting
their tree into a parent maintainers tree, or if there is none, asking
Linus to pull your tree at the appropriate time.