Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

Hi,

On Thursday, 24 of March 2005 21:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> 
> Occasionally I'll go out and ping people, but almost always the subsystem
> guys know what the development cycle is, and they appropriately decide
> which code should go in, and when.
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> We've been discussing how to get ALSA CVS into ALSA bk more promptly.

BTW, on 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 I can't rmmod the snd_intel8x0 module (the process
goes into the D state immediately), which did not happen before.  This is 100%
reproducible, on two different AMD64-based boxes, with different sound chips.

Greets,
Rafael


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