From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S940125AbXGSRE2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:04:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933756AbXGSRET (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:04:19 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:48814 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933574AbXGSRES (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:04:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:03:46 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Josh Boyer" Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , LKML , "Nigel Cunningham" , "Oleg Nesterov" , "Pavel Machek" Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/5] Freezer update Message-Id: <20070719100346.a9e8b12b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0707190930j381ea4f2x462a8269db269388@mail.gmail.com> References: <200707180929.31511.rjw@sisk.pl> <20070718010353.27965df7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <625fc13d0707190930j381ea4f2x462a8269db269388@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:30:54 -0500 "Josh Boyer" wrote: > On 7/18/07, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > so please consider them as 2.6.23 material. > > > > The door for new 2.6.23 material shut two weeks ago. Here, at least. > > So do you have a general guideline as to when you'd like patches sent > to you for the next merge window? The releases are fairly > predictable, so perhaps something like one of the later -rc candidates > for the upcoming release? > > E.g. patches for 2.6.24 should be to you by 2.6.23-rc? That sounds about right. But nothing is cast in stone here: one needs to take into account the urgency/desirability of the change, the perceived benefit and risk, etc. I do prefer that material has been out in at least one -mm release before it goes mainline.