Re: ALSA bugs in list [was Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm1]

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 20:10 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 12:41 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >  > From: bugme-daemon@xxxxxxxx
> >  > 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@xxxxxxxx
> >  > 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.

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.

Lee

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