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James,

> 
>> I do not know when it is merge-window. About the apply version, it does not have limited.
> 
> 'git fetch' Linus' tree and look at the tags. 'v4.16' lost its '-rc' suffixes,
> and there isn't a 'v4.17-rc1' yet, so we are still in the merge window.
> 
> Linus sends a message to LKML. eg:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/1/175
> 
> net-next closes shortly before the merge window, and re-opens afterwards. There
> is a handy web page:
> http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/net-next.html

 Thanks for this information, got it.