Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755824Ab2K1TaJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:30:09 -0500 Received: from mailout4.w1.samsung.com ([210.118.77.14]:38005 "EHLO mailout4.w1.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752508Ab2K1TaH (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:30:07 -0500 Message-id: <50B6663C.6080800@samsung.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:30:04 +0100 From: Sylwester Nawrocki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Hans Verkuil , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, DLOS , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Greg Kroah-Hartman , LKML , Prabhakar Lad , Prabhakar Lad , Sakari Ailus , Laurent Pinchart , Hans Verkuil , Manjunath Hadli , LMML Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Media Controller capture driver for DM365 References: <1354099329-20722-1-git-send-email-prabhakar.lad@ti.com> <20121128114537.GN11248@mwanda> <201211281256.10839.hansverk@cisco.com> <20121128122227.GX6186@mwanda> In-reply-to: <20121128122227.GX6186@mwanda> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1007 Lines: 23 On 11/28/2012 01:22 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > In the end this is just a driver, and I don't especially care. But > it's like not just this one which makes me frustrated. I really > believe in linux-next and I think everything should spend a couple > weeks there before being merged. Couple of weeks in linux-next plus a couple of weeks of final patch series version awaiting to being reviewed and picked up by a maintainer makes almost entire kernel development cycle. These are huge additional delays, especially in the embedded world. Things like these certainly aren't encouraging for moving over from out-of-tree to the mainline development process. And in this case we are talking only about merging driver to the staging tree... -- Thanks, Sylwester -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/