On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:26:34PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
it could be. i was going by the changes that werent in 2.6.30. i thought i looked for previous submissions, but i must have missed previous attempts. i'm not familiar with alsa stuff, so i'm not
The patch hadn't previously been sent in that form but it looks like it's attempting to fix a bug which had had some previous goes at fixing it that required updates.
always sure when i need to bang on Cliff to get things fixed up (changes split / better comments / etc...).
If you're not sure there's a case for better changelogs at least! :)
if fixes miss a merge window, then that's an issue. but in general, users only see fixes per release, so sending things more quickly there wouldnt really help ?
The issue is that things are missing merge windows - they're getting sent in but if there's any review comments a revised version of the patch isn't getting posted until the next batch of submissions. It's these revisions rather than the initial submissions that I'm concerned about.