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

[Mike Isely]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Mike Isely wrote:
> 
> 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.

FYI, I have received confirmation now that the fix has been queued for 
inclusion into 2.6.27.4.

  -Mike

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