# Re: provide more common DMA API functions V2

- From: Christoph Hellwig \<hch@lst.de\>
- Date: 2015-08-18 06:01:10 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2015/08/4559692
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-alpha/2015/08/4559034/t.md

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On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:45:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'll merge these 5 patches for 4.3.  That means I'll release them into
> > > linux-next after 4.2 is released.
> > 
> > So you only add for-4.3 code to -next after 4.2 is odd?  Isn't thast the
> > wrong way around?
> 
> Linus will be releasing 4.2 in 1-2 weeks and until then, linux-next is
> supposed to contain only 4.2 material.  Once 4.2 is released,
> linux-next is open for 4.3 material.

Hmm, I'm pretty sure there's tons of 4.3 material in linux-next at the
moment, at least I got merge warning messages from Stephen about
some yesterday.
```