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Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:26:29 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v4 0/3] leds: trigger: netdev: add additional
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2023, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> > Seeing as we're on -rc7 already, any reason why we shouldn't hold off
> > and simply apply these against LEDs once v6.5 is released?
> 
> Each subsystem has its own policies. netdev tends to accept patches
> right up until the merge window opens, sometimes even a couple of days
> into the merge window for low risk changes. Maybe this is because
> netdev is fast moving, two weeks of not merging results in a big
> backlog of patches, making it a bumpy restart once merging is started
> again. And is some of those late patches breaks something, there is
> still 7 weeks to fix it.
> 
> Since this is cross subsystems i would expect both subsystems
> Maintainers to agree to a merge or not. If you want to be more
> conservative than netdev, wait until after the next merge window,
> please say so.
> 
> If you do decided to wait, you are going to need to create another
> stable branch to pull into netdev. I know it is not a huge overhead,
> but it is still work, coordination etc.

Can you clarify you last point for me please?

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]