[pvrusb2] pvrusb2 fix in 2.6.27.x stable tree?

[Mike Isely]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Mike Isely wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, devsk wrote:
> 
> > Its not there in 2.6.27.3...:(
> > 
> > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.3
> > 
> > 
> > But at least we have workaround...:)
> > 
> > -devsk
> 
> I'm not sure what happened.  I think either somebody just dropped the 
> ball or there's something new about the stable submission process that I 
> must have screwed up.  This fix is obvious, needed, and is a clear-cut 
> candidate for a stable update.  It will get there eventually.
> 
> This fix has already been pulled into v4l-dvb and submitted up for 
> inclusion into 2.6.28, btw.
> 

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.

  -Mike


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