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

Andrew Morton
2005-03-22T04:28:22Z

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.

> 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.
>

It's not a trivial problem.