linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the rdma tree with the nfsd tree

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Date:	Sun, 3 Jan 2016 21:53:20 -0500
From:	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the rdma tree with the nfsd tree

On 01/03/2016 08:44 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:30:22 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Doug,
>>
>> Today's linux-next merge of the rdma tree got conflicts in a quite a
>> few files between (mostly, I think) commit:
>>
>>   6c7b6d2d442c ("IB: merge struct ib_device_attr into struct ib_device")
>>
>> from the nfsd tree and various commits from the rdma tree.
>>
>> It would have taken me considerable time to fix the conflicts up, so I
>> have dropped teh rdma tree for today (just because it was merged second).
>> Please have a conversation and figure out how you are going to cooperate
>> and get these conflicts fixed e.g. set up a stable branch with Christoph's
>> commit (and any other conflicting commits) in it and merge that into
>> both trees.
> 
> So, on further inspection, it appears that there is a series of commits
> in the rdma tree that does basically the same as that nfsd tree commit
> above.  So I have dropped the rdma tree again today.  Please have a
> conversation guys ...
> 

The initial patchset was Christoph's.  It was later replaced with a
different patchset from Or Gerlitz.  Bruce picked up some changes from
Chuck Lever that were originally based on Christoph's work but now need
to be rebased off of the current RDMA tree.

-- 
Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
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