Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the tip tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Tue Sep 08 2015 - 18:56:15 EST


Hi Linus,

On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 11:11:25 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The below patch was missed when the userfaultfd stuff and the x86 changes
> > were merged. I have repeated the patch in the clear below.
>
> When forwarding patches, please add your sign-off. I can see (and
> apply) the original in this thread, so I guess it doesn't matter in
> this particular case, but in general that's what you should be doing
> so that I don't then have to find the other email just to apply the
> patch from the original author.

Ooops, sorry about that. I really should know better.

> Also, this wasn't actually a real merge error. This was just a bug in
> the whole process. Andrew's patches sent to me had been updated with
> the right number for all the other cases, why hadn't this been folded
> into the series too? Apparently Andrew's series has simply been buggy
> for the last month or more, and that was true even before it was sent
> to me and while it was cooking in -next.. Tssk.

I have been applying that patch I sent to you to -next for some time.
I guess I expected Andrew to pick it up when he rebased his patch
series before submitting it to you. These things sometimes slip
through the cracks.

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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