Re: linux-next: manual merge of the gfs2 tree with the vfs tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Mon Jun 21 2021 - 21:39:07 EST


Hi Steven,

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 11:12:31 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the gfs2 tree got conflicts in:
>
> Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
> include/linux/uio.h
> lib/iov_iter.c
>
> between various commits from the vfs tree and the same, older version,
> of the commits from the gfs2 tree.
>
> I fixed it up (I used the vfs tree versions) 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 got more conflicts today.

Can we please get that (old, buggy) version of this topic branch
removed from the gfs2 tree (and replaced with a merge of the new less
buggy version (assuming Al will guarantee that it won't change again).

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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