linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] omap fixes for v2.6.32-rc3

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Date:	Fri, 9 Oct 2009 14:33:27 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	Denis Karpov <ext-denis.2.karpov@...ia.com>,
	Uwe Kleine-K??nig <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] omap fixes for v2.6.32-rc3

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 12:26:42 -0700
Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:

> > >
> > > What kind of issues? __Why would I be interested, where is the problem?
> > 
> > The obvious-brain-dead-duh kind of issues, like this one.
> > 
> > The problem is that OMAP devices (like beagleboard) are not booting
> > correctly right now because of a wrong merge. It has been identified,
> > tested, and acked, but nobody has picked it up for a pull request, so
> > it's not clear it will be on -rc4.
> 
> Has the patches been sent from the maintainer to Linus?
> 
> Who is the maintainer?  Who normally sends this stuff?
> 
> > To me it's not clear who should push the patch, it seems it doesn't
> > belong on linux-omap, so Tony is pushing it through linux-mmc, which I
> > don't think is the right place. They should be handling mmc-related
> > issues, not obvious breakage.
> 
> Well, mmc related breakage is fine to handle :)
> 
> > In order to keep the engines oiled I think there must be a process to
> > flag obvious generic breakage so it's immediately picked; maybe an
> > 'obvious-fixes' tree, or a 'simple-fixes' that has 'trivial',
> > 'includecheck', and similar, or maybe nothing needs to be done. Up to
> > you to decide.
> 
> Andrew usually sends stuff like this at times.

yeah, when in doubt, send it to me.  When not in doubt send it to me
anyway ;)

I'll take care of bugging the appropriate maintainer or merging it directly.

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