Re: linux-next: manual merge of the jc_docs tree with the vfs and net-next trees

[Stephen Kitt]

Le 18/05/2020 14:22, Jonathan Corbet a ÃcritÂ:
> On Mon, 18 May 2020 12:30:13 +1000
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Today's linux-next merge of the jc_docs tree got a conflict in:
> >
> >   kernel/sysctl.c
> >
> > between commit:
> >
> >   f461d2dcd511 ("sysctl: avoid forward declarations")
> >
> > from the vfs tree and commit:
> >
> >   2f4c33063ad7 ("docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max")
> >
> > from the jc_docs tree.
>
> Hmm...that's somewhat messy.  I somehow managed to miss the change to
> kernel/sysctl.c that doesn't have much to do with documentation.  
> Stephen
> (Kitt): I've reverted that change for now.  Could I ask you to resubmit 
> it
> as two different patches?  I'll happily take the actual docs change; 
> the
> sysctl change can be sent to the VFS tree on top of the changes there.

Done, thanks.

> In general we really don't want to mix unrelated changes like this.

Noted, Iâll avoid mixing changes in future.

Regards,

Stephen