linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86 trampoline rework for 3.5

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Date:	Tue, 29 May 2012 20:38:44 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...el.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 trampoline rework for 3.5

On 05/29/2012 08:19 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I didn't see any git silent mis-merges, though. The fact that that
> relocs.c file had come in two different ways did make for a more
> interesting merge, since it didn't have any common ancestry - just two
> different original versions. But git seemed to do the right thing, and
> marked where they differed.
> 

I don't know why, but when I did a test merge of my original branch into
top of your tree, it silently merged everything (no markings) but
incorrectly.

Perhaps it is a git version-specific thing.

	-hpa


-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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