Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757097AbYG3QFf (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:05:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751789AbYG3QF2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:05:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:53080 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751167AbYG3QF1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:05:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:05:25 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Jonathan Corbet , LKML , Amanda McPherson , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] A development process document In-Reply-To: References: <20080729143015.0f79cf37@bike.lwn.net> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.2 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1298 Lines: 32 At Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:09:13 +0200 (CEST), Jiri Kosina wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > > +Over the next six to ten weeks, only patches which fix problems should be > > +submitted to the mainline. On occasion a more significant change will be > > +allowed, but such occasions are rare; developers who try to merge new > > +features outside of the merge window tend to get an unfriendly reception. > > +As a general rule, if you miss the merge window for a given feature, the > > +best thing to do is to wait for the next development cycle. > > On the other hand, the drivers for completely new hardware (that has been > totally unsupported by the kernel previously, so there is no possibility > for introducing regressions) are still allowed even after -rc1, right? > > This might be worth explicit note here. I see this argument often in different places. IMO, the new driver should follow the rule, too, *in general*. RC is an RC, not a beta. Of course, there can be exceptions, though... just my $0.02. Takashi -- 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/