On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Mike Isely wrote: > > More information... > > I had previously thought that Mike Krufky could simply cherry-pick > changes out of a linuxtv.org repository and send them straight up for > inclusion but I guess I had either misunderstood this or the process has > since changed. Instead, the current stable update process requires that > before Greg K-H can grab changes for a new stable point-release, > proposed fixes must first get into Linus' tree. And that has to come > from Mauro picking up the change(s) from the developer's v4l-dvb > repository. I made the fix available to Mauro Sunday afternoon; Mauro > did the pickup Tuesday afternoon but his pull request to Linus is > apparently still pending. > > I have also been told that the proposed changes for 2.6.27.3 were locked > into review starting last Saturday. The pvrusb2 fix missed that window > by 24 hours - of course assuming an unrealistic zero latency between my > posting it, Mauro pulling it, and Linus pulling that. So it had no > chance to get into 2.6.27.3. > > However I see no reason why this deadlock fix won't make it into > 2.6.27.4.
FYI, I have received confirmation now that the fix has been queued for inclusion into 2.6.27.4. -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ pobox (dot) com PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
