Re: [PATCH v8 0/6] Introduce CET supervisor state support

[Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>]

On 6/3/25 17:56, Chao Gao wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 08:10:03AM -0700, Chao Gao wrote:
>> Dear maintainers and reviewers,
>>
>> I kindly request your consideration for merging this series. Most of
>> patches have received Reviewed-by/Acked-by tags.
> Looks like we now have AMD RB and the other issue (reported by Sean) was
> pre-existing. x86 maintainers, please consider applying.

Hi Chao,

You might want to take a look at this:

https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-tip.html#merge-window

Specifically:

> Please do not expect patches to be reviewed or merged by tip
> maintainers around or during the merge window. The trees are closed
> to all but urgent fixes during this time. They reopen once the merge
> window closes and a new -rc1 kernel has been released.

In other words, your mail to ask us to consider applying is going to get
ignored for at least a week. Best case, it gets put on one of our lists
to go look at later.

My suggestion to you and all other submitters of non-critical fixes is
to spend the time between now and -rc1 reviewing *others* code and
making sure yours is 100% ready once -rc1 is released. The week after
the -rc1 release is a great time to send these emails, not now.