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

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Date:   Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:16:31 +0000
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
CC:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the xarray tree

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:48:01PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Leon,
>
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:34:42 +0000 Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com> wrote:
> >
> > Matthew, really? change of API in -rc7? And it after you pushed us to
> > base our -next on -rc5 after another API change? What should we do now?
>
> The xarray API changes (to xa_alloc and __xa_alloc) have been in
> linux-next for about 2 weeks ...

I looked on the latest update of pulled branch
http://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax.git/shortlog/refs/heads/xarray

>
> > Can you please ensure that you are sending your pull request to Linus,
> > after RDMA pull request will be successfully merged?
>
> It doesn't matter which goes in first, but whoever goes in last should
> inform Linus about these (now 2) API change fixups.  In fact you should
> probably both let him know as he sometimes batches up similar groups of
> merge requests (like fs or net) and doesn't do them in the order they
> are submitted.

OK, we will do.

Thanks

>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell



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