Re: [GIT PULL] omap fixes for v2.6.32-rc3

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 12:26:42 -0700
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:

> > >
> > > What kind of issues? __Why would I be interested, where is the problem?
> > 
> > The obvious-brain-dead-duh kind of issues, like this one.
> > 
> > The problem is that OMAP devices (like beagleboard) are not booting
> > correctly right now because of a wrong merge. It has been identified,
> > tested, and acked, but nobody has picked it up for a pull request, so
> > it's not clear it will be on -rc4.
> 
> Has the patches been sent from the maintainer to Linus?
> 
> Who is the maintainer?  Who normally sends this stuff?
> 
> > To me it's not clear who should push the patch, it seems it doesn't
> > belong on linux-omap, so Tony is pushing it through linux-mmc, which I
> > don't think is the right place. They should be handling mmc-related
> > issues, not obvious breakage.
> 
> Well, mmc related breakage is fine to handle :)
> 
> > In order to keep the engines oiled I think there must be a process to
> > flag obvious generic breakage so it's immediately picked; maybe an
> > 'obvious-fixes' tree, or a 'simple-fixes' that has 'trivial',
> > 'includecheck', and similar, or maybe nothing needs to be done. Up to
> > you to decide.
> 
> Andrew usually sends stuff like this at times.

yeah, when in doubt, send it to me.  When not in doubt send it to me
anyway ;)

I'll take care of bugging the appropriate maintainer or merging it directly.