Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:46:00 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
        DLOS <davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.lad@ti.com>,
        Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com>,
        Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
        Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>,
        Manjunath Hadli <manjunath.hadli@ti.com>,
        LMML <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Media Controller capture driver for DM365
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:30:04PM +0100, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> 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.

If I were to take this today, it would only live in linux-next for less
than a week before it would be sent to Linus due to where we are in the
development cycle, so Dan's objections are quite valid.

> These are huge additional delays, especially in the embedded world.

Embedded is special just like everyone else.

greg k-h
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