Re: [GIT PULL] Addition of the I3C subsystem in 4.20 (5.0)?

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>]

Hello Linus,

On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 09:27:20 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:35 PM Boris Brezillon
> <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> wrote:
> >
> > Greg, I didn't get your feedback on v10 of the i3c patchset [1] where I
> > was asking if you'd agree to have this framework merged in 4.20 (I know
> > you were busy with the 4.19 release and after that the Kernel Summit, so
> > that's not a surprise), so I'm sending this PR. It's really not an attempt
> > to bypass you, more like a ping that, if positively acknowledged, might
> > lead to inclusion of the I3C framework in 4.20 (5.0?) :-).
> 
> Regardless of any other issues, this is now too late in the merge
> window for me to accept.
> 
> Yes, the merge window is two weeks, but that's not because people
> should send me pull requests for two weeks. A large part of it is that
> it takes time to merge stuff, and I want to have time in the later
> part of the merge window for things I have to look at and ponder.

Ok, I didn't know that.

> 
> So that's why I want new stuff to be ready *before* the merge window,
> and I want to see the actual pull requests early. The two weeks is not
> for development and to let people delay things a bit, it's to make it
> possible to synchronize and to work out issues.

Noted, and sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,

Boris