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

Takashi Iwai
2005-03-22T10:05:58Z

At Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:23:03 -0800,
Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> 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.

sound-bk includes fairly recent codes but not always the very latest
since the sync between ALSA CVS and sound-bk trees are done manually
by Jaroslav.

We have a mechanism to do sync immediately for critical patches. But
I seem to forget to tag it like this case. Sorry for that.

Takashi