Lee Revell <[email protected]> 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.
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