On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 01:03 -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:01:37PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:30:23PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > * Debian Bug Tracking System [110331 03:39 +0000]: > > > > Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > > > > > > > > > reassign 617743 alsa-driver > > > > Bug #617743 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.37-2-686: found another USB > > > > midi cable with a 4 byte limit > > > > Bug reassigned from package 'linux-2.6' to 'alsa-driver'. > > > > Bug No longer marked as found in versions 2.6.37-2. > > > > > > This can be fixed easy to the alsa-source package. The fix will then > > > be valid for users who build their alsa-drivers from alsa-source. > > > But people using alsa drivers from Debian's kernel won't, though. > > > > I agree it should be fixed in linux-2.6. But it should be accepted > > upstream first, and filing a bug in the upstream bug tracker is > > probably not the way to get this done! > > What is the correct way to get this accepted upstream?
Add a 'signed-off-by' statement to your patch as explained in section 12 of <http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches>, then send it to Clemens Ladisch <clem...@ladisch.de> and the ALSA developer list <alsa-de...@alsa-project.org>. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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