netdev - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the selinux tree with the net-next tree

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Message-Id: <20120106091550.534131cb1fe6e3dee323699c@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:15:50 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>
Cc:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@...el.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@...fusion.mobi>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the selinux tree with the net-next
 tree

Hi Paul,

On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:25:53 -0500 Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, January 05, 2012 03:12:55 PM Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > Today's linux-next merge of the selinux tree got a conflict in
> > net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c between commit 15770b1ab974 ("Bluetooth:
> > convert force_active variable to flag in l2cap chan") from the net-next
> > tree and commit 53860f3d0499 ("bluetooth: Properly clone LSM attributes
> > to newly created child connections") from the selinux tree.
> > 
> > These both remove the same line, but there is probably something more
> > subtle going on ...  I just used the version from the net-next tree.
> 
> Something is a bit odd.  When I look in the current linux-next tree I see two 
> commits which fix a Bluetooth/LSM bug; the first is correct, the second one 
> appears to be some other commit which just hijacked the description from the 
> first ... I have no idea what is going on in the second commit; I'll leave 
> that to you git gurus :)
> 
>  * Correct commit -> 6230c9b4f8957c8938ee4cf2d03166d3c2dc89de

That is a commit in Linus' tree before v3.1

>  * Garbage commit -> 53860f3d0499992855d58e33f0f79bfe642dfccb

That is the commit in the selinux tree.  This should be unnecessary as
the selinux tree is based on v3.1 (and I basically ignored it in the
merge resolution).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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