On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 02:25:10PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 08:19:31AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:

> >> 4.4 was a total supprise to everyone, including me, it came out during
> >> the kernel summit discussions, and we decided right there in the middle
> >> of my talk to do it.  So there was no "preannouncement" possible there.

> > It was still a preannouncement - you announced before v4.4 came out as
> > opposed to after.

> Yes, but still long after the closing of the v4.4 merge window, making it
> almost impossible to sneak in new features.

That's true but it's not something that makes a different from the point
of view of the people I've seen caring most about getting advance notice
- for them just having some notice before the actual release makes a big
difference.