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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:01 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote: > > it's my contributors who drop me in it > > by leaving their patch sets until you declare a kernel, dumping the > > integration testing on me in whatever time window is left. > > Yes, I think I'm noticing an uptick in patches as soon as a kernel is > released. > > It's a bit irritating, and is unexpected (here, at least). I guess people > like to hold onto their work for as long as possible so when they release > it, it's in the best possible shape. I suspect part of that is the concern about whether the code will merge with whatever -mm looks like next. Of course you already do ludicrous amounts of merging, but sometimes you'll just throw it back and say "too many rejects". Cheers, Con - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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