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Message-ID: <m17htph5ms.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:17:47 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>,
	Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@...acom.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sysctl tree with the net tree

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the sysctl tree got a conflict in
> net/ipv6/addrconf.c between commit
> f7734fdf61ec6bb848e0bafc1fb8bad2c124bb50 ("make TLLAO option for NA
> packets configurable") from the net tree and commit
> f8572d8f2a2ba75408b97dc24ef47c83671795d7 ("sysctl net: Remove unused
> binary sysctl code") from the sysctl tree.
>
> I fixed it up (see below) including removing the new ctl_name (thanks for
> the heads up, Eric).   I can carry this fixup as necessary.

Would it be of any value for me to send David a change killing ctl_name
for the new entry?  That is equivalent to .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED and
would make this a trivial conflict.

Fundamentally the conflict detection will always kick in here because
as I am modifying previous and succeeding entries in the table so the
context will always be different.

I'm still getting a hang of running a public git tree.

Eric

> diff --cc net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> index 522bdc7,f918399..0000000
> --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> @@@ -4388,15 -4285,7 +4320,14 @@@ static struct addrconf_sysctl_tabl
>   			.proc_handler	=	proc_dointvec,
>   		},
>   		{
> - 			.ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
>  +			.procname       = "force_tllao",
>  +			.data           = &ipv6_devconf.force_tllao,
>  +			.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
>  +			.mode           = 0644,
>  +			.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec
>  +		},
>  +		{
> - 			.ctl_name	=	0,	/* sentinel */
> + 			/* sentinel */
>   		}
>   	},
>   };
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