linux-kernel - Re: Trial of conflict resolution of Alan's patch

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Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:47:04 +0100
From:   Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:     Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        will.deacon@....com, peterz@...radead.org, boqun.feng@...il.com,
        npiggin@...il.com, dhowells@...hat.com, j.alglave@....ac.uk,
        luc.maranget@...ia.fr, Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>
Subject: Re: Trial of conflict resolution of Alan's patch

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:18:34AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > My forward-port patch doesn't apply to the "lkmm" branch.
> > It looks like "linux-kernel-hardware.cat" is intentionally omitted there.
> > Am I guessing right?
> > 
> > If this is the case, I can prepare a patch to be applied to "lkmm".
> > But I can't compose a proper change log. So I'd like Alan to post
> > a patch with my SOB appended. Does this approach sound reasonable?
> 
> The patch is not yet ready to be merged.  At the very least, I need to
> include an update to explanation.txt along with it.  When it is all 
> ready, I will rebase it on Paul's repository and post it.
> 
> Which reminds me: Now that the material has been accepted into the 
> kernel, do we need to keep the github repository?  It has the 
> linux-kernel-hardware.cat file, but otherwise it seems to be redundant.

If you mean "to keep up-to-date", I'd say "No, we don't..."  ;-)

My plan/hope is to add such a disclaimer together with a pointer
to Linus's tree ASAP...

  Andrea


> 
> Alan
>