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[209.85.208.177]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k9sm2581069ljg.59.2021.03.01.13.34.56 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:34:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-lj1-f177.google.com with SMTP id e2so14126173ljo.7 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:34:56 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a2e:864d:: with SMTP id i13mr7426349ljj.48.1614634496518; Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:34:56 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 13:34:40 -0800 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: Linux 5.12-rc1 To: Sedat Dilek Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 12:35 AM Sedat Dilek wrote: > > I wondered why there was approx. for 6 days no commits and got an > answer from an LWN posting "5.12 Merge window delayed". > Unsure, if there was a posting to LKML? There was no posting to lkml because lkml doesn't take html emails, and I only had mobile data (and not even that for the first 24 hours or so - even cell towers were down). I did send updates to several top-level maintainers and to the users@kernel.org mailing list, so a lot of people knew about it, but they in turn probably only ended up mentioning it on a need-to-know basis. As you mention, LWN did have a mention of it, but you'd have to find it. In normal times I would have just taken a laptop to the nearest Starbucks and worked that way, but not in the pandemic. Plus the local highway was actually shut down for three days because of downed trees on the road (this was not a Texas-style electricity generation problem - it was literally thousands of trees falling all over. We had one miss our house by a couple of meters). Two weeks later, and the roadways are still littered with trees and tons of branches everywhere you drive. And I didn't have a generator because our local power lines are actually buried, and we very seldom lose electricity. But when all the feeder lines are down because trees fell over, and it takes a week first for the tree crews to clear the roads and then the electric crews to replace literally miles of electric cable, it doesn't really help all that much that the local lines are buried and all in good working order ;) > Anyway, if you are not able to make your work someone else should jump > in like Greg did once. It was an option, it didn't seem worth it. And part of _that_ was that it looked like "ok, a couple of days", and then it just kept being "one more day" for several days. A lot of people lost power for just a day or two. The area I live in probably wasn't a huge priority, because it's somewhat sparsely populated, and nice and wooded. Which is really nice most of the time. It's not quite so nice when you can hear the trees keep falling around you, and you know you have a few really big ones right next to the house.. ;^p Linus