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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Harshavardhan R Kharche <harshavardhan.r.kharche@intel.com>,
	Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>,
	Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@intel.com>,
	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] misc: fix various misc/mic/host/ build errors
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:49:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131017144906.GB23234@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131017142138.GC32734@ulmo.nvidia.com>

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:21:39PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 03:16:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:02:25PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:37:27PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 
> > > > Yes, I'll do that as part of my normal tree submission process.
> > 
> > > Actually, ensuring correct merge order won't be enough, will it? That
> > > doesn't magically fixes that the function's signature actually changed.
> > 
> > > Shouldn't the update of the sysfs_get_dirent() call be fixed within the
> > > same patch that updates the sysfs_get_dirent() signature?
> > 
> > They're applied in different trees so they're both OK by themselves,
> > it's the merge that brings the two together that needs to do the fixup.
> 
> Right, as long as the person doing that merge remembers to do that. It
> sounds like the thing that could easily be forgotten. But Linus has been
> doing this for a long time, so I'm sure he'll know what to look for. I'm
> curious though, are maintainers supposed to mention it when sending pull
> requests with such a dependency?

Sometimes, if we remember, we do, sometimes we don't :)

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-17 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-14 14:48 linux-next: Tree for Oct 14 Thierry Reding
2013-10-14 14:48 ` linux-next: manual merge of the block tree Thierry Reding
2013-10-14 14:48 ` linux-next: manual merge of the drm-intel tree Thierry Reding
2013-10-14 14:48 ` linux-next: manual merge of the drm tree Thierry Reding
2013-10-14 14:48 ` linux-next: manual merge of th imx-mxs tree Thierry Reding
2013-10-14 14:48 ` linux-next: manual merge of the omap_dss2 tree Thierry Reding
2013-10-15  6:47   ` Tomi Valkeinen
2013-10-14 14:48 ` linux-next: manual merge of the pm tree Thierry Reding
2013-10-14 14:48 ` linux-next: manual merge of the spi tree Thierry Reding
2013-10-14 16:44   ` Mika Westerberg
2013-10-14 18:58 ` linux-next: Tree for Oct 14 (bcache) Randy Dunlap
2013-10-14 20:27   ` Mark Brown
     [not found]     ` <20131014202723.GQ2443-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2013-10-15  8:46       ` Thierry Reding
     [not found]         ` <20131015084631.GK7856-AwZRO8vwLAwmlAP/+Wk3EA@public.gmane.org>
2013-10-15  9:36           ` Mark Brown
     [not found]   ` <525C3EC2.20404-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-10-15  8:44     ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-14 19:36 ` [PATCH -next] netdev: inet_timewait_sock.h missing semi-colon when KMEMCHECK is enabled Randy Dunlap
2013-10-14 19:53   ` Joe Perches
2013-10-14 20:47     ` Randy Dunlap
2013-10-14 21:24       ` Joe Perches
2013-10-14 21:25       ` Joe Perches
2013-10-17 19:57   ` David Miller
2013-10-14 19:38 ` [PATCH -next] misc: fix various misc/mic/host/ build errors Randy Dunlap
2013-10-16 19:26   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-16 19:41     ` Randy Dunlap
2013-10-16 19:44       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-16 20:30         ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-16 20:37           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-17 14:02             ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-17 14:15               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-17 14:16               ` Mark Brown
2013-10-17 14:21                 ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-17 14:49                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-10-16 20:47           ` Mark Brown
2013-10-14 19:39 ` [PATCH -next] staging/mt29f_spinand: fix build error when ONDIEECC not enabled Randy Dunlap
2013-10-14 20:51 ` linux-next: Tree for Oct 14 (ceph) Randy Dunlap

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