From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Jones Subject: Re: [RFC] Any value in having a netdev FAQ? Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:53:53 -0700 Message-ID: <51E82BB1.7090605@hp.com> References: <20130716025954.GC26761@windriver.com> <1374112504.7622.49.camel@envy.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Paul Gortmaker , "David S. Miller" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Darren Hart Return-path: Received: from g4t0017.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.20]:16641 "EHLO g4t0017.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759037Ab3GRRxz (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:53:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1374112504.7622.49.camel@envy.home> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/17/2013 06:55 PM, Darren Hart wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 22:59 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > >> IMPORTANT: Do not send new net-next content to netdev during the >> period during which net-next tree is closed. >> >> Shortly after the two weeks have passed, (and vX.Y-rc1 is released) the >> tree for net-next reopens to collect content for the next (vX.Y+1) release. > yesterday I tried to send an email to Jeremy Kerr asking if there was some way to tweak patchwork to allow DaveM a way to signal net-next being closed - perhaps some message at http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/ Baring that, I wondered if it would be possible to submit a dummy "[PATCH net-next] net-next closed until futher notice" patch, and fake-out the date to be some point in the future, so it would appear at the top of the list of patches. rick jones