From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: geert.uytterhoeven@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20160913103814.GQ27946@sirena.org.uk> References: <57C78BE9.30009@linaro.org> <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> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:25:10 +0200 Message-ID: To: Mark Brown Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Tsugikazu Shibata , Greg KH , "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 12:38 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 08:19:31AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:45:48AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > >> > tightrope with their schedule and trying to predict LTS. What you did >> > with v4.4 (announcing during the -rc cycle) addresses this, as does what >> > you've done this year pulling that even further forwards. > >> 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. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds