Re: [PATCH, RFC] A development process document

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:09:13 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On the other hand, the drivers for completely new hardware (that has
> been totally unsupported by the kernel previously, so there is no
> possibility for introducing regressions) are still allowed even after
> -rc1, right? 

Clearly it's been known to happen (can you say GRU?).  But I don't know
that has ever really been adopted as an "official" policy.  My
preference would be to lay down the merge window rules as a fairly firm
thing rather than suggest to people that there might be ways to slip
around them sometimes.  But, certainly, I'm not tied to that if we want
to send a different message.

Thanks,

jon
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