linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iio: buffer: re-introduce bitmap

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Date:   Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:18:43 +0100
From:   Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
To:     "Ardelean, Alexandru" <alexandru.Ardelean@...log.com>,
        "ardeleanalex@...il.com" <ardeleanalex@...il.com>,
        "andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com" 
        <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "jic23@...nel.org" <jic23@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-iio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: buffer: re-introduce bitmap_zalloc() for trialmask

On 3/17/20 1:53 PM, Ardelean, Alexandru wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-03-17 at 14:52 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> [External]
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:36:21PM +0200, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
>>> Commit 3862828a903d3 ("iio: buffer: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()") introduced
>>> bitmap_alloc(), but commit 20ea39ef9f2f9 ("iio: Fix scan mask selection")
>>> reverted it.
>>>
>>> This change adds it back. The only difference is that it's adding
>>> bitmap_zalloc(). There might be some changes later that would require
>>> initializing it to zero. In any case, now it's already zero-ing the
>>> trialmask.
>>
>> FWIW,
>> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Thanks.
> And sorry for the hiccup back there.

It looks like a merge conflict. Both patches are in parallel sub-trees. 
I guess one went through fixes and the other through the normal tree and 
then when they were merged, the issue was not resolved properly.

2019-04-21 Greg Kroah-Hartman   M─┐ Merge 5.1-rc6 into staging-next
2019-02-20 Lars-Peter Clausen   │ o iio: Fix scan mask selection
2019-03-04 Andy Shevchenko      o │ iio: buffer: Switch to bitmap_zalloc
2018-02-20 Greg Kroah-Hartman   M─┤ Merge tag 'iio-fixes-for-4.16a