[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#617743: Processed: reassign 617743 alsa-driver

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 16:02 -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 04:25:16AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 01:03 -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:01:37PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:30:23PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > > > * Debian Bug Tracking System [110331 03:39 +0000]:
> > > > > > Processing commands for control at bugs.debian.org:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > reassign 617743 alsa-driver
> > > > > > Bug #617743 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.37-2-686: found another USB midi cable with a 4 byte limit
> > > > > > Bug reassigned from package 'linux-2.6' to 'alsa-driver'.
> > > > > > Bug No longer marked as found in versions 2.6.37-2.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This can be fixed easy to the alsa-source package. The fix will then
> > > > > be valid for users who build their alsa-drivers from alsa-source.
> > > > > But people using alsa drivers from Debian's kernel won't, though.
> > > >  
> > > > I agree it should be fixed in linux-2.6.  But it should be accepted
> > > > upstream first, and filing a bug in the upstream bug tracker is
> > > > probably not the way to get this done!
> > > 
> > > What is the correct way to get this accepted upstream?
> > 
> > Add a 'signed-off-by' statement to your patch as explained in section 12
> > of <http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches>, then
> > send it to Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de> and the ALSA developer
> > list <alsa-devel at alsa-project.org>.
> 
> I submitted it and it got accepted into the sound tree.
> It is not yet in the Linus tree.
> It has been slightly modified.
> Here is the commit from the sound tree (attached)
> 
> Do we have to wait until Linus Torvalds merges it?

No, getting it into the subsystem tree is good enough for us.  Thanks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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