Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the mm tree

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Jun 16 2023 - 12:07:45 EST


On 6/16/23 3:56?AM, David Howells wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> That's getting a bit nasty. Maybe David's patches are in the wrong
>> tree.
>
> You'd need to discuss that one with Jens. The patches you'd have to
> transfer also touch a number of block-related files. Looking at
> block/for-next, there don't seem to be many other patches touching
> those files, but I've seen patches from Christoph that will need to be
> applied on top of mine.

It's definitely a bit of a mess now, but for-6.5/block also depends on
these changes and make further tweaks on the block front.

for-6.5/splice is stable, so just pull that in?

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Jens Axboe