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SubjectRe: [PATCH, RFC] A development process document
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.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs



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