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

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:35:36PM -0800, Sage Weil wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:27:44PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi Sage,
> > > 
> > > Today's linux-next merge of the ceph tree got a conflict in
> > > fs/ceph/super.c between commit 3c5184ef1216 ("ceph: d_alloc_root() may
> > > fail") from Linus' tree and commit 26d913cdd955 ("ceph: always initialize
> > > the dentry in open_root_dentry()") from the ceph tree.
> > > 
> > > I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary.
> > 
> > Ahem...  
> > 
> > >  +			root = d_obtain_alias(inode);
> > >  +		}
> > > + 		ceph_init_dentry(root);
> > 
> > What will happen if dentry returned by d_obtain_alias() had already existed?
> 
> ceph_init_dentry() bails out immediately if d_fsdata is non-NULL.

Right.

> BTW, should I let Linus resolve this, or merge his master back into my 
> tree, or rebase onto his master?

My fault - I should've checked your tree for conflicts and feed that fix to
you since it turned out to have them.  I thought for some reason that ceph
pull had already happened...
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