From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>,
CIFS <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>,
"Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the mm-stable tree with the cifs tree
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 19:01:57 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230220190157.3b43b9a7@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y/N8hVWeR3AjssUC@casper.infradead.org>
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Hi Matthew,
On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:58:29 +0000 Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 03:29:33PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the mm-stable tree got a conflict in:
> >
> > fs/cifs/file.c
> >
> > between commit:
> >
> > c8859bc0c129 ("cifs: Remove unused code")
> >
> > from the cifs tree and commits:
> >
> > 4cda80f3a7a5 ("cifs: convert wdata_alloc_and_fillpages() to use filemap_get_folios_tag()")
> > d585bdbeb79a ("fs: convert writepage_t callback to pass a folio")
> >
> > from the mm-stable tree.
> >
> > This is a real mess :-(
>
> Doesn't look too bad to me. Dave's commit is just removing the
> functions, so it doesn't matter how they're being changed.
The problem I see is that an earlier commit in the cifs tree moves the
use of find_get_pages_range_tag() to another function and 4cda80f3a7a5
then removes find_get_pages_range_tag().
> The real question in my mind is why for-next is being updated two days
> before the merge window with new patches. What's the point in -next
> if patches are being added at this late point?
Indeed :-(
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-20 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-20 4:29 linux-next: manual merge of the mm-stable tree with the cifs tree Stephen Rothwell
2023-02-20 13:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-02-20 8:01 ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2023-02-20 20:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-02-21 6:44 ` Stephen Rothwell
2023-02-21 7:19 ` David Howells
2023-02-21 7:42 ` Stephen Rothwell
2023-02-21 14:39 ` David Howells
2023-02-21 14:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-02-21 15:05 ` David Howells
2023-02-21 15:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-02-21 15:20 ` David Howells
2023-02-21 15:30 ` Obsolete comment on page swizzling (written by Hugh)? David Howells
[not found] ` <2890066.1676993700@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
2023-02-21 22:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2023-02-22 2:49 ` linux-next: manual merge of the mm-stable tree with the cifs tree Stephen Rothwell
2023-02-22 8:27 ` David Howells
2023-02-22 12:13 ` Stephen Rothwell
2023-02-20 21:00 ` Steve French
2023-02-21 6:50 ` Stephen Rothwell
2023-02-20 14:29 ` David Howells
2023-02-20 15:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-02-20 8:05 ` Stephen Rothwell
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