linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the tip tree with the kgdb tree

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Date:	Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:46:26 -0600
From:	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the tip tree with the kgdb tree

Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the tip tree got a conflict in
> arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c between commit
> 53a2aa296b5108e9bfdcda7f41221e721d9c7474 ("x86,hw_breakpoint,kgdb: kgdb
> to use hw_breakpoint API") from the kgdb tree and commit
> cc0967490c1c3824bc5b75718b6ca8a51d9f2617 ("x86, hw_breakpoints, kgdb: Fix
> kgdb to use hw_breakpoint API") from the tip tree.
>
> These two commits are similar but sufficiently different to make a mess.
> I effectively reverted the kgdb tree version and used the tip tree
> version.  This also involved reverting the kgdb tree changes to
> arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c.  I hope I got it right (since I had to
> reapply a few other kgdb changes by hand) (an x86_64 allmodconfig build
> produces no new warnings or errors, so I have some hope).
>
> Someone should give me some guidance as to a way forward here, please.
>
>   

What is in tip is the correct version. 

It is the age old time dependency of who updates whose tree first, vs
when the linux-next merge runs.  At any rate this is already resolved.

Thanks,
Jason.
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