linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip tree

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Message-ID: <CA+icZUU2WVB+tyQd6_B2YHAgj4a=+v4OxeKVztYWWVLo7nQMQg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:25:39 +0100
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	linux-next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip tree

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 09:42 +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:46:06 +0100 Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I hope it doesn't look quite like that, next-20140117 is -ENOBOOT on
>> >> Q6600 box.  See below for an alternative.
>> >>
>> >> idle: kill unnecessary mwait_idle() resched IPIs
>> >
>> > OK, so despite even further discussion, I have applied this as a merge
>> > fix patch for today.  Let me know when it is all sorted out.
>> >
>>
>> Where is this fix?
>
> If you pull next-20140120, the fix is in it.
>
>> ( Browsing Linux-next remote GIT repository online. )
>> 2x NOPE for me.
>
> Probably because it's a temporary conflict fix.
>

It's about the handling of fixes for -next.
For such kind of "special" tweaks Stephen introduced *next-fixes* (see
his email on linux-next ML and [1]).
Such make-my-system-boot-again and other critical fixes belong there.

BTW, I found the merge hunk (see my other email).

- Sedat -

[1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sfr/next-fixes.git
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