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

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

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