Hi David,
David Brownell wrote:
On Friday 24 April 2009, Ben Warren wrote:
My approach is that once the merge window closes, new patches that are not bug fixes go into 'next', which is for the release after the current one (in this case 07).
Then I'm curious how that dm9000 EEPROM reading bugfix landed in net/next ... or is the point that the merge window for 2009.05 is still open, since RC1 hasn't yet been tagged?
In this case a pretty good argument could be made that it's a bug fix and not a feature, so can go in 2009.05. Obviously bugs that break builds get more attention than ones that have been in code for a while and nobody noticed. I'll ask Wolfgang to pick it up directly. As you're noticing, how and when patches are picked up is open to many interpretations.
regards, Ben