On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 10:54:45AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > What's the reasoning for not submitting this for 5.4? I think the > improvements here are definitely worth pulling into the 5.4 kernel > release... Because 5.4 is at rc5, new features are allowed to be merged only during the merge window, ie. before 5.4-rc1. Thats more than a month ago. From rc1-rcX only regressions or fixes can be applied, so you can see pull requests but the subject lines almost always contain 'fix'. A new feature has to be in the develoment branch at least 2 weeks before the merge window opens (for testing), so right now it's the last opportunity to get it to 5.5, 5.4 is out of question. No matter how much I or users want to get it merged. This is how the linux development process works. The raid1c34 patches are not intrusive and could be backported on top of 5.3 because all the preparatory work has been merged already.
