Re: for-4.8/drivers and Linus' tree + staging conflicts?

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Thu Jul 21 2016 - 10:06:37 EST


On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 05:48:37PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 07/15/2016 10:19 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >Hey Jens,
> >
> >I have some patches for Xen block driver that are based on Linus's tree
> >which has:
> >7b427a5 xen-blkfront: save uncompleted reqs in blkfront_resume()
> >
> >That particular patch conflicts with your for-4.8/driver branch.
> >
> >What I was wondering is if:
> >
> > 1) Do you want me to create a branh for you to pull in your
> > for-4.8/drivers that has the above patch (and a resolution)?
> > And along with that the rest of the patches I've for 4.8?
>
> No, I don't want a lot of extra gunk.
>
> > 2) Or if you are going rebase your 'for-4.8/drivers' branch
> > on top of v4.7-rc7 (which will pull in the above commit?)
>
> Or that, I never rebase those branches.
>
> > 3) Stash the patches I've in the Xen tip tree (which is
> > based on 4.7-rc7) for 4.8 with me putting your Ack on them?
> > See below log and the full diff.
>
> We can do that, or I can stage them for post initial merge (essentially my
> for-linus, which I could base on 4.7-rc7 now). I'm fine with either.

OK, lets go with this one and we will stick them in xen-tip.

Thanks Jens!

>
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> Jens Axboe
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