Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:23:03 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       apatard@mandrakesoft.com, perex@suse.cz, tiwai@suse.de
Subject: Re: ALSA bugs in list [was Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm1]
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Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 20:10 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 12:41 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >  > From: bugme-daemon@osdl.org
> > >  > Subject: [Bug 4282] ALSA driver in Linux 2.6.11 causes a kernel panic when loading the EMU10K1 driver
> > >  > 
> > > 
> > >  This one is a real mystery.  No one can reproduce it.
> > 
> > OK.  But we don't seem to have heard from the originator since March 5th.
> > 
> > >  > From: bugme-daemon@osdl.org
> > >  > Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4348] New: snd_emu10k1 oops'es with Audigy 2 and
> > >  > 
> > > 
> > >  This one is fixed in ALSA CVS.
> > 
> > But not in http://linux-sound.bkbits.net/linux-sound yet.  How does stuff
> > propagate from ALSA CVS into bk?
> > 
> > 
> 
> The ALSA maintainers periodically ask Linus to pull from the linux-sound
> tree.  But that's just the general "ALSA update" process.

Oh.  I was always under the impression that
http://linux-sound.bkbits.net/linux-sound contains the latest devel stuff
for -mm.

> I'm not aware of a mechanism for getting critical fixes like this in
> ASAP.  The last few have been shepherded through manually by various
> people.  Looks like we need a better system.
> 

It's not a trivial problem.
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