Re: [RFC 3/4] Documentation: Add cutoff periods for patch acceptance

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 10:09:49PM -0800, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> This has been a recurring source of confusion for the new submitters who
> I've helped; let's see if adding a small illustration improves the
> situation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/development-process/5.Posting | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting b/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting
> index 14f8b01..50cf4dc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting
> +++ b/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting
> @@ -35,6 +35,22 @@ merge window has closed.  You can visit https://www.kernel.org/ to check
>  the merge window status; it is closed if the "mainline:" entry shows a
>  version number containing "-rc", and open if a non-rc version number appears.
>  
> +In many cases, feature additions received and accepted somewhere in the range
> +of [N-rc1, N-rc5) will be merged into the -next tree targeting the (N+1) Linux
> +release.  For example:
> +
> +  kernel.org "mainline:"  |  Patch may appear
> +  field when posted       |  in released kernel
> +  ------------------------+--------------------------------
> +  3.18-rc[1-4]            |  3.19
> +  3.18-rc[5-9]            |  3.20
> +  3.18                    |  Merge window open - don't post
> +  3.19-rc[1-4]            |  3.20
> +  3.19-rc[5-9]            |  3.21
> +  3.19                    |  Merge window open - don't post
> +
> +Bug fixes can typically be accepted at any time.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

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    Boris.

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