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From: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, rcu <rcu@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Apply new rest conversion patches to /dev branch
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 16:04:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEXW_YQ-JnuZGj7zUtmvY0Cn4swoHXoR6UD=iPKw56N55CL3-Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190801195832.GP5913@linux.ibm.com>

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:58 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 02:14:02PM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> > This series fixes the rcu/dev branch so it can apply the new ReST conversion patches.
> >
> > Patches based on "00ec8f46465e  rcu/nohz: Make multi_cpu_stop() enable tick on
> > all online CPUs"
> >
> > The easiest was to do this is to revert the patches that conflict and then
> > applying the doc patches, and then applying them again. But in the
> > re-application, we convert the documentation
> >
> > No manual fix ups were done in this process, other than to documentation.
>
> Ah, I was expecting that you would forward-port the conversion, but
> yes, that could be painful and error prone.
>
> But given that there are some dependencies on these patches, could you
> please use the following alternative procedure for the patches that
> touch both code and documentation?
>
> o       Revert only the documentation portion of each commit.  I will
>         then merge the partial reverts with the original commits.
>
> o       Apply the documentation conversion.
>
> o       Reapply the documentation portions on top of the conversion.

Sure, this would be better. I will do this in the evening and send it
to you. Thanks,

 - Joel

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-01 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-01 18:14 [PATCH 0/9] Apply new rest conversion patches to /dev branch Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 1/9] Revert "rcu: Restore barrier() to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()" Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 2/9] Revert "rcu: Add support for consolidated-RCU reader checking" Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 3/9] Revert "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()" Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 5/9] docs: rcu: Correct links referring to titles Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 6/9] docs: rcu: Increase toctree to 3 Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 7/9] Revert "Revert "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()"" Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 8/9] Revert "Revert "rcu: Add support for consolidated-RCU reader checking"" Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 9/9] Revert "Revert "rcu: Restore barrier() to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()"" Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 18:38 ` [PATCH 0/9] Apply new rest conversion patches to /dev branch Joel Fernandes
2019-08-01 19:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-08-01 20:04   ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2019-08-01 20:14     ` Paul E. McKenney

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