linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-current tree with Linus' tree

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Message-ID: <20130814100101.GC10849@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:01:01 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>,
	Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-current tree with Linus' tree


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

> Hi Russell,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the arm-current tree got a conflict in 
> arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c between commit b88a2595b6d8 ("perf/arm: Fix 
> armpmu_map_hw_event()") from Linus' tree and commit d9f966357b14 ("ARM: 
> 7810/1: perf: Fix array out of bounds access in armpmu_map_hw_event()") 
> from the arm-current tree.
> 
> These are the same patch except for the return code (and the much more 
> comprehensive commit message in the arm-current tree version).  I fixed 
> it up (using the arm-current tree version - return -EINVAL instead of 
> -ENOENT - I have no way to guess which is right) and can carry the fix 
> as necessary (no action is required).

-EINVAL would be the better/cleaner one, so when this gets merged upstream 
we should pick up Russell's version. It does not affect functionality.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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