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Re:The 3.9 kernel is out by demetris on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:13AM (#5625580)
From the first paragraph of the announcement:[1]

“makes me suspect [...] people were gaming the system and had timed some of their pull requests for just before the release”.

Does anyone know what Linus means by that?

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/548799/

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Re:The 3.9 kernel is out by edwintorok on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:36AM (#5625697)
Pull requests this late in the -rc cycle should contain only important bugfixes, other changes should normally wait for the next kernel release. For example Linus ignored some pull requests sent for 3.6-rc2 that didn't really belong there: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/16/577
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