[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: core: Fix access to uninitialized list heads

[Takashi Iwai]

On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 01:08:18 +0100,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 09:50:15AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > This patch seems forgotten?  5.5 still suffers from the mentioned
> > bug.
> 
> It's in my fixes branch.

OK, now found a reply post of a couple of days ago.  Unfortunately the
commit still doesn't appear on linux-next because the update has been
stopped for holidays, so I overlooked it.

But...

> Please don't send content free pings and please allow a reasonable time
> for review.  People get busy, go on holiday, attend conferences and so 
> on so unless there is some reason for urgency (like critical bug fixes)
> please allow at least a couple of weeks for review.  If there have been
> review comments then people may be waiting for those to be addressed.
>
> Sending content free pings adds to the mail volume (if they are seen at
> all) which is often the problem and since they can't be reviewed
> directly if something has gone wrong you'll have to resend the patches
> anyway, so sending again is generally a better approach though there are
> some other maintainers who like them - if in doubt look at how patches
> for the subsystem are normally handled.

This warning doesn't seem fit at all.  The patch was submitted three
weeks ago.


thanks,

Takashi