On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 02:44:42PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
From what I have seen, subsystems such as netdev, the block layer, and RDMA continue to accept code that is ready for merging, especially when it has been thoroughly reviewed by multiple maintainers across different subsystems.
He said it multiple times, but here's one of such examples:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+55aFwdd30eBsnMLB=ncExY0-P=eAsxkn_O6ir10JUyVSY...
Woah, nobody is saying to skip linux-next. It is Wednesday, if it lands in the public tree today it will be in linux next probably for a week before a PR is sent. This is a fairly normal thing for many trees in Linux.
Linus is specifically complaining about people *entirely* skipping linux-next.
So, yeah, we can make exceptions. But you should ask and justify for one, instead of expecting us to pick up a patch submission that was already late.
I think Leon is only pointing out that a hard cut off two weeks before the merge window even opens is a DRMism, not a kernel wide convention.
Jason