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

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:08:00PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> > * Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> [091008 15:20]:
> 
> <snip/>
> 
> >> > Here you can see Uwe Kleine-K??nig sending the original patch without
> >> > even CC'ing the mmc list:
> >> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124820861213849&w=2
> >> >
> >> > And it was unintentionally broken by this one:
> >> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-mmc&m=125249763422227&w=2
> >>
> >> Er, actually that one was ok, the problem was introduced only in the
> >> final version:
> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-mmc&m=125366315417006&w=2
> >
> > Right, looks like Roger forgot to Cc linux-mmc.
> >
> >> > I don't see what we are waiting for, the code is clearly broken, even
> >> > the compiler warns that nobody is using omap_hsmmc_probe().
> >
> > I've sent Roger's patch to Andrew & linux-mmc so hopefully it will get
> > merged soon:
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org/msg00539.html
> 
> I don't see what's specific about mmc in that patch, nor omap. It's
> just a fix for an obvious mistake that must be picked ASAP and can't
> possibly be NAK'ed.
> 
> There's a tree for trivial fixes:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
> 
> And one for includecheck:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaswinder/linux-2.6
> 
> What's the procedure for obvious fixes? I'm CC'ing Greg KH and Andrew
> Morton because I think they might interested in fixing these kinds of
> issues quickly in the future.

What kind of issues?  Why would I be interested, where is the problem?

confused,

greg k-h