Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2

Lee Revell
2005-03-24T16:47:11Z

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 04:41 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> -mm kernels now aggregate Linus's tree and 34 subsystem trees. Usually
> they are pulled 3-4 hours before the release of the -mm kernel.
>

Andrew,

Do you notify the subsystem maintainers ahead of time so that critical
fixes can be pushed to BK?

I am thinking of the recent ALSA example, where the emu10k1 driver was
b0rked in 2.6.12-mm1, but the fix had been in ALSA CVS for a week.

Lee