SRU 2nd ack

[Tim Gardner]

Michael Krufky wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  to exercise the SRU process. I would like the add the following patch
>>  for 8.04.1. This would avoid a large amount of error messages (see
>>  https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/209971).
>>
>>  Stefan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Please be aware that the GPIO fix, above, is already queued for
> 2.6.24.6-stable, and the review period ends today -- this fix will be
> merged into the vanilla 2.6.24.6-stable kernel today or tomorrow, the
> latest.
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=commitdiff;h=75d5d102be039d3e54fda2bb3b8446d5334cbeec
> 
> "v4l-cx88-enable-radio-gpio-correctly.patch"
> 
> Please also be advised that the "fix" is merely a workaround -- the
> actual bug is in Ubuntu's hald, which is writing GPIOs to this PCI
> card.
> 
> How is hald doing this? WHY is hald doing this? We only see this issue
> in Ubuntu -- nobody else has reported this issue using other distros.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mike Krufky
> 

Stefan - milestone this for 8.04.1 so that we remember to cherry-pick it
from stable 2.6.24.y when the patch appears.

rtg

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at ubuntu.com