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

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Date:	Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:32:34 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Xen Devel <Xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the xen tree with the tip tree

Hi Jeremy,

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:53:39 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:
>
> On 09/13/2011 08:07 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:54:41 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:12:33 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> >>>> On 08/25/2011 04:06 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >>>>>> Stephen: the x86/spinlocks branch in the -tip tree is obsolete and
> >>>>>> should be dropped.
> >>>>> That's a bit tricky as I get a rolled up tip tree.  The best I could do
> >>>>> is revert the commit that merges the x86/spinlocks branch into
> >>>>> auto-latest ...  I'll do that for today (unless something happens to the
> >>>>> tip tree in the next hour).
> >>>>>
> >>>> OK, let me bother Ingo about it.
> >>> For today, I have done "git revert -m 1 6f8fa39c81f1" after merging the
> >>> tip tree.
> >> I am still doing this in each linux-next, and it doesn't appear to have
> >> been fixed up the the tree on tesla.tglx.de, yet, I think.
> > We'll take it out. 
> 
> Actually, the tip x86/spinlocks was the most up-to-date version of those
> patches (since hpa had rebased them to a more recent version of mainline).
> 
> But never mind.  Stephen, could you use
> 
>     git://github.com/jsgf/linux-xen.git upstream/xen
> 
> for linux-next instead of the kernel.org xen.git, and I've re-added the
> up-to-date spinlock changes there.

OK, I have switched to this from today.

My understanding is this:  I do *not* need to revert the spinlock changes
from tip anymore, correct?

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

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