From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 03:49:06 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Mark Brown Message-ID: <20160914014906.GA23547@kroah.com> References: <20160902134711.movdpffcdcsx6kzv@thunk.org> <20160910120055.gr2cvad7efwci4f2@thunk.org> <20160912162714.GC27946@sirena.org.uk> <20160912171450.GB27349@kroah.com> <20160912234548.GL27946@sirena.org.uk> <20160913061931.GC11047@kroah.com> <20160913103814.GQ27946@sirena.org.uk> <20160913192153.GT27946@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160913192153.GT27946@sirena.org.uk> Cc: Tsugikazu Shibata , "ltsi-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [LTSI-dev] [Stable kernel] feature backporting collaboration List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 08:21:53PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 02:25:10PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Mark Brown 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. Why? What do they want to do with this notice? greg k-h