linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging: android: fix permissions style

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Message-ID: <e5d04f6e-5157-593e-fc0c-52395f49ada7@synopsys.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:49:33 +0100
From:   Ramiro Oliveira <Ramiro.Oliveira@...opsys.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ramiro Oliveira <Ramiro.Oliveira@...opsys.com>
CC:     <arve@...roid.com>, <riandrews@...roid.com>,
        <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: android: fix permissions style

On 9/28/2016 4:37 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 02:48:39PM +0100, Ramiro Oliveira wrote:
>> On 9/28/2016 10:28 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:02:28PM +0100, Ramiro Oliveira wrote:
>>>> Change permissions from symbolic to octal.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ramiro Oliveira <roliveir@...opsys.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c | 4 ++--
>>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>> Doesn't apply to my tree at all, are you sure you are working against
>>> linux-next?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> I've checked and I'm working with linux-next from September 28.
>>
>> I've even cloned a fresh repository and applied my patch against it, and it didn't return any error.
>>
>> I'm following this man page: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html
>>
>> And these are the latest commits I can see in my local repository.
>>
>> ramiro (28-Set) ~/linux-next $ git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit -10
>> 486aa34 Staging: android: fix permissions style
>> d1dfecd Add linux-next specific files for 20160928
>> 193fc13 Merge branch 'akpm/master'
>> 0a02a3c treewide: remove redundant #include <linux/kconfig.h>
>> 8cac28f hung_task-allow-hung_task_panic-when-hung_task_warnings-is-0-fix
>> 25758d2 hung_task: allow hung_task_panic when hung_task_warnings is 0
>> ceed084 kthread: add kerneldoc for kthread_create()
>> 998139d scripts/tags.sh: enable code completion in VIM
>> b6edcec mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mapping
>> 73ac410 kdump, vmcoreinfo: report memory sections virtual addresses
>>
>> Can you give some pointers on what I might be doing wrong?
> Hm, I think this is my fault, sorry.  The patch that this conflicts with
> was applied by me yesterday, and didn't make it into linux-next for the
> release that you are using.
>
> Sorry about that.  You can wait for the next linux-next release
> tomorrow, or you can work off my staging-next branch of the staging.git
> tree on git.kernel.org (that branch ends up in linux-next.)
>
> So you were doing the right thing, we just got out of sync.
>
> greg k-h
Thanks for the feedback. I'll work against your staging-next branch and submit
the corrected patch.

BRs,
Ramiro