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

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

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:42:27 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > > >> There's a tree for trivial fixes:
> > > >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
> 
> Well, as this is quite a high-priority functional fix, I'd suggest using 
> other channels that trivial tree, as this one is primarily intended for 
> simple fixes that are not really urgent.
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> The problem is that MMC now doesn't have proper maintainer, since Pierre 
> stepped down from maintaining this stuff.
> 
> Still, for the fix mentioned on
> 
> 	http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org/msg00539.html
> 
> the most appropriate contact would probably be Madhusudhan Chikkature. 
> Adding him to CC of this thread.

hm.  What's all the fuss about?  That patch was sent To:me and affects
only MMC and is clearly a bugfix.  I'll merge it when i get to it
(hopefully tomorrow) then all is good?