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Old 04-08-2015, 09:10 PM   #1
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diff -u: What's New in Kernel Development


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Recently there was some discussion about ways to ease the tired backs of kernel maintainers. Apparently the merge windows are times of great labor, and some folks wanted to alert contributors to some preferable code submission habits.

There were a variety of ideas, and Kevin Cernekee summarized them in patch form, but one key idea was that none of this advice really could be treated as etched into stone. Linus Torvalds and Theodore Ts'o, in particular, pointed out that maintainers all have their own ways of doing things, and that no general rules could be relied on universally to produce repeatable results.

In general though, as Kevin posted, the merge window is not a great time to submit new patches. The merge window is the time after a new kernel version comes out and before the first -rc release. Developers either should avoid submitting patches at that time, or as was also discussed, they at least should not expect a reply to their patches, and they should avoid submitting any patch a second time during that period, if the first one seems to go unaccepted.

Kevin also posted a very rough calculation of when developers might expect to see their code in an official kernel. If they submit code within the first four -rc releases, they could expect to see their code in the next official kernel release. If they submit code within the remaining four -rc releases, they could expect to see it in the second following official release. Alan Cox thought this calculation very valuable, though Linus cautioned that it was really quite a rough estimate and highly dependent on any given maintainer's particular patch acceptance habits.
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