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Message-ID: <20190801201435.GQ5913@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Aug 2019 13:14:35 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, rcu <rcu@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Apply new rest conversion patches to /dev branch

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 04:04:15PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:58 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 02:14:02PM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> > > This series fixes the rcu/dev branch so it can apply the new ReST conversion patches.
> > >
> > > Patches based on "00ec8f46465e  rcu/nohz: Make multi_cpu_stop() enable tick on
> > > all online CPUs"
> > >
> > > The easiest was to do this is to revert the patches that conflict and then
> > > applying the doc patches, and then applying them again. But in the
> > > re-application, we convert the documentation
> > >
> > > No manual fix ups were done in this process, other than to documentation.
> >
> > Ah, I was expecting that you would forward-port the conversion, but
> > yes, that could be painful and error prone.
> >
> > But given that there are some dependencies on these patches, could you
> > please use the following alternative procedure for the patches that
> > touch both code and documentation?
> >
> > o       Revert only the documentation portion of each commit.  I will
> >         then merge the partial reverts with the original commits.
> >
> > o       Apply the documentation conversion.
> >
> > o       Reapply the documentation portions on top of the conversion.
> 
> Sure, this would be better. I will do this in the evening and send it
> to you. Thanks,

Very good, looking forward to seeing it!

The smoke tests of the rebase onto v5.3-rc2 passed, so on to create
the usual branches.  Yes, this will complicate merging of the partial
reverts, but there will be the need to apply review comments and the
like anyway, so not really a net increase in complexity.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

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