RE: [GIT PULL] omap fixes for v2.6.32-rc3

["Madhusudhan" <madhu.cr@ti.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiri Kosina [mailto:jkosina@suse.cz]
> Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 4:42 PM
> To: Greg KH
> Cc: Felipe Contreras; Tony Lindgren; Linus Torvalds; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-omap@vger.kernel.org; Denis Karpov; Uwe
> Kleine-K??nig; Andrew Morton; Madhusudhan Chikkature
> Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] omap fixes for v2.6.32-rc3
> 
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > > >> There's a tree for trivial fixes:
> > > >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
> 
> Well, as this is quite a high-priority functional fix, I'd suggest using
> other channels that trivial tree, as this one is primarily intended for
> simple fixes that are not really urgent.
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> The problem is that MMC now doesn't have proper maintainer, since Pierre
> stepped down from maintaining this stuff.
> 
> Still, for the fix mentioned on
> 
> 	http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org/msg00539.html
> 
> the most appropriate contact would probably be Madhusudhan Chikkature.
> Adding him to CC of this thread.
> 
Since this fix was posted in Linux-omap, Tony pointed this out to Andrew so
that the fix will go upstream. That should this fix this mmc issue.

Regards,
Madhu

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> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.