linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the net-next tree with the infiniband tree

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Date:	Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:50:20 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	Vipul Pandya <vipul@...lsio.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the net-next tree with the
 infiniband tree

Hi Cascardo,

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:53:04 -0300 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 01:18:43PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > Today's linux-next merge of the net-next tree got a conflict in
> > drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c between commit 5b0c275926b8
> > ("RDMA/cxgb4: Fix SQ allocation when on-chip SQ is disabled") from the
> > infiniband tree and commit 9919d5bd01b9 ("RDMA/cxgb4: Fix onchip queue
> > support for T5") from the net-next tree.
> > 
> > I think that they are 2 different fixes for the same problem, so I just
> > used the net-next version and can carry the fix as necessary (no action
> > is required).
> 
> Commit 5b0c275926b8 also keeps the intention of the original patch which
> broke it, which was to return an error code, in case the allocation fails.
> Commit 9919d5bd01b9 fix will return 0 in case the allocation fails.
> 
> We should keep the other fix or fix the code again to return the proper
> error code.

OK, so today I switched the conflict fix to use the version from the
infiniband tree.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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