linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the moduleh tree

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Date:	Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:15:16 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the moduleh tree

Hu Paul,

On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:15:45 -0400 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> wrote:
>
> I figured, given the footprint of the module.h stuff, that it is entirely
> unfair for you to have to carry all those changes that aren't in the
> merge-base of the module.h branch.  So I've created a post merge
> commit series that I'll maintain -- which will have the commits that
> can't be in the module.h split branch, but will be required, once all
> the linux-next content has been merged.
> 
> If you clone:
> 
>    git://openlinux.windriver.com/people/paulg/modsplit-post-merge
> 
> you will get a repository of commits, and a series file (just like that used
> for longterm/stable queues) that you can deploy onto linux-next to get
> the changes you'd been carrying, plus new ones I found by testing on
> linux-next myself.
> 
> I'm hoping that you can plug pulls of this post-merge queue into your
> infrastructure in a way that moves the burden off you and onto me.

OK, that is easy, I will just use your set of patches instead of my set
of merge fixups - it just drops in.

Thanks for that.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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