Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 08:57:53 +0000
From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
        Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>, key.seong.lim@intel.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] spi-nor: Add support for Intel SPI serial flash
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On Wed, 07 Dec 2016, Marek Vasut wrote:

> On 12/07/2016 09:53 AM, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 09:45:25AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> >> I'm happy either way.  However if you take them, I will require a
> >> pull-request to an immutable branch containing only these patches.
> >>
> >> If I take them, it won't be until v4.11, since we are half way though
> >> -rc8 already and I would like them to soak in -next for at least a
> >> couple of weeks.
> > 
> > This series already missed v4.8 and v4.9 so I don't think there is a
> > rush to get it for v4.10 either ;-) I'm fine if it goes for v4.11.
> 
> Hmmmmmmmmmmm, that kinda sucks. Lee, are you positive this isn't 4.10
> material ?

The merge-window opens in 2 days.

As I mentioned, I like patches to reside in -next for at least 1 maybe
2 RC cycles before merging.  It's far to easy to accept code, then get
bitten if/when it breaks after being merged by Linus.

-- 
Lee Jones
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