On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 01:58:50AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote: > > From: gre...@linuxfoundation.org [mailto:gre...@linuxfoundation.org] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 23:06 > > To: Dexuan Cui <de...@microsoft.com> > > Cc: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net>; netdev@vger.kernel.org; KY > > Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com> > > Subject: Re: When will net-next merge with linux-next? > > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:11:34AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote: > > > I'm wondering whether (and when) step 2 will happen in the next 2 weeks, > > > that is, before the tag 4.6-rc1 is made. > > > If not, I guess I'll miss 4.6? > > > > You missed 4.6 as your patch was not in any of our trees a few days > > before 4.5 was released, sorry. > > > > greg k-h > Hi Greg, > Thanks for the reply! > > My patch has to go in net-next first, but even today's mainline and net-next > haven't had the supporting patches in the VMBus driver, so I can't post my > patch to net-next even today -- it seems it's doomed to need 2 major > release cycles to push a feature that makes changes to 2 subsystems? :-(
Usually, yes, unless you talk to us ahead of time so we can coordinate, or have one of the patches go through a different tree (i.e. all in one tree.). Just wait until 4.6-rc1 is out and all will be fine. greg k-h
