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

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Date:   Wed, 7 Mar 2018 11:34:31 -0500
From:   Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Richard Haines <richard_c_haines@...nternet.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the selinux tree with the net-next tree

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:03 AM, Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> Today's linux-next merge of the selinux tree got a conflict in:
>>
>>   net/sctp/socket.c
>>
>> between several refactoring commits from the net-next tree and commit:
>>
>>   2277c7cd75e3 ("sctp: Add LSM hooks")
>>
>> from the selinux tree.
>>
>> I fixed it up (I think - see below) and can carry the fix as
> The fixup is great!  the same as I mentioned in:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/879898/
> for net-next.git
>
>> necessary. This is now fixed as far as linux-next is concerned, but any
>> non trivial conflicts should be mentioned to your upstream maintainer
>> when your tree is submitted for merging.  You may also want to consider
>> cooperating with the maintainer of the conflicting tree to minimise any
>> particularly complex conflicts.
>
> [net-next,0/9] sctp: clean up sctp_sendmsg, this patchset was just applied
> in net-next. So I just guess it might not yet be there when selinux tree was
> being submitted.

The selinux/next branch is based on v4.16-rc1 and doesn't feed into
the netdev tree, it goes straight to Linus during the merge window so
unfortunately I think we may need to carry this for some time and
relay this fix-up patch up to Linus during the merge window.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com