Re: linux-next: manual merge of the drbd tree with Linus' tree

[Jens Axboe]

On Tue, Jun 01 2010, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:13:24PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Today's linux-next merge of the drbd tree got a conflict in fs/pipe.c
> > between commit cc967be54710d97c05229b2e5ba2d00df84ddd64 ("fs: Add missing
> > mutex_unlock") from Linus' tree and commits
> > 0191f8697bbdfefcd36e7b8dc3eeddfe82893e4b ("pipe: F_SETPIPE_SZ should
> > return -EPERM for non-root") and b9598db3401282bb27b4aef77e3eee12015f7f29
> > ("pipe: make F_{GET,SET}PIPE_SZ deal with byte sizes") from the drbd tree.
> > 
> > I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix for a while.
> 
> Why is the drbd tree touching fs/pipe.c anyway?

A quick guess would be that it's based off for-linus in the block tree,
which has a patch or two in that area. Why it would conflict and simply
not note that it's the same change, perhaps a rebase or something? Not
sure.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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