linux-ext4 - Re: [GIT PULL linux-next] Add Compiler Attributes tree

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Date:   Tue, 2 Oct 2018 14:16:27 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL linux-next] Add Compiler Attributes tree

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 2:11 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Miguel,
>
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 15:47:12 +0200 Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > The Compiler Attributes series has been stable for 10+ days. To
> > increase testing before 4.20, I would to request it being picked up
> > for -next.
> >
> > The changes w.r.t. v5 in the LKML:
> >
> >   - Rebased on top of next-20180928, which required removing
>
> Unfortunately, trees/branches included in linux-next must be based on
> something stable (usually Linus' tree, but it could be another
> tree/branch that is included in linux-next that does not rebase).
> Linux-next itself rebases every day, so snything based on it would drag
> in a previous version of all the other trees :-(

I think of this like a branch that's force pushed to.  Can't base
other branches or trees off of it cause it's always moving/force
rewriting history.

>
> > aligned_largest, which was removed by 9503cd9cbaba
> > ("include/linux/compiler*.h: add version detection to
> > asm_volatile_goto").
>
> That commit is from Andrew's patch series which also rebases (usually
> at least every week), so you cannot depend on it.

Miguel, you should be able to drop that patch from your set then,
since Andrew's -mm tree flows into this -next tree as well, IIUC.
We'll take up that patch from there.

-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers