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

[Jeff Layton]

On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 06:59 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 15:46 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > Today's linux-next merge of the akpm-current tree got a conflict in:
> > 
> >   include/linux/fs.h
> > 
> > between commit:
> > 
> >   9dcc0577f2a4 ("mm: remove optimizations based on i_size in mapping writeback waits")
> > 
> > from the wberr tree and patch:
> > 
> >   "mm: remove optimizations based on i_size in mapping writeback waits"
> > 
> > from the akpm tree.
> > 
> > I fixed it up (I just dropped the akpm tree patch) and can carry the
> > fix as necessary. This is now fixed as far as linux-next is concerned,
> > but any non trivial conflicts should be mentioned to your upstream
> > maintainer when your tree is submitted for merging.  You may also want
> > to consider cooperating with the maintainer of the conflicting tree to
> > minimise any particularly complex conflicts.
> > 
> 
> I didn't realize that Andrew was going to pick that one up. I'll drop it
> from my tree.
> 
> Thanks!

Actually, I take it back. Jan had some comments about the commit message
and I'd like to revise this. Andrew, do you mind dropping this patch
instead?

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>