Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Media Controller capture driver for DM365

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:30:04PM +0100, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> On 11/28/2012 01:22 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > In the end this is just a driver, and I don't especially care.  But
> > it's like not just this one which makes me frustrated.  I really
> > believe in linux-next and I think everything should spend a couple
> > weeks there before being merged.
> 
> Couple of weeks in linux-next plus a couple of weeks of final patch
> series version awaiting to being reviewed and picked up by a maintainer
> makes almost entire kernel development cycle.

If I were to take this today, it would only live in linux-next for less
than a week before it would be sent to Linus due to where we are in the
development cycle, so Dan's objections are quite valid.

> These are huge additional delays, especially in the embedded world.

Embedded is special just like everyone else.

greg k-h
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