linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: fix residual byte count handling

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Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:29:25 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>, htejun@...il.com,
	tomof@....org, James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com, bzolnier@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: fix residual byte count handling

On Tue, Mar 04 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04 2008, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 14:03 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 
> > > Re-read my original mail! It states that you should just pull:
> > > 
> > > git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-linus
> > > 
> > > into your linus branch, or just create a test branch off linus' master
> > > and pull into that. IOW, it's the for-linus branch that you should pull,
> > > nothing else.
> > 
> > Well, I had a good reason.  You know how to un-pull, I know how to
> > un-remote to get back to pristine after I'm done testing... guaranteed
> > without whimpering pathetically on the git list ;-)
> 
> OK, if you're on master, it's pretty easy:
> 
> $ git branch test-branch
> $ git checkout test-branch
> $ git pull git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-linus
> 
> [build, boot, test]
> $ git checkout master
> $ git branch -D test-branch
> 
> > Anyway, I checked out the one with the big-fat-hint in it's name
> > (block-for-linus/for-linus).
> > Same error.  Git this morning with patches...
> > 	restore_meaning_of_data_len.diff
> > 	seperate_out_padding_from_alignment.diff
> > ...reverted restored me to the originally reported k3b error, nothing
> > new noted.
> > 
> > If I tested the wrong branch, whack me upside the head, and I'll follow
> > your pull destructions, and figure out how to un-pull later.
> 
> for-linus is the right branch, but I'm just a little worried that you
> didn't test what you think you tested. What does cat .git/HEAD say? If
> that is a ref to a file (eg refs/heads/master), what does that file
> contain?

Or just re-pull Linus' tree, the stuff is in now.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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