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

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Thu May 31 2012 - 04:30:21 EST


Hi Johannes,

On Thu, 31 May 2012 09:25:05 +0200 Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 02:13:29PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the akpm tree got a conflict in
> > mm/memcontrol.c between commit 78ccf5b5ab83 ("mm: memcg: print statistics
> > directly to seq_file") and others from Linus' tree and commit "memcg: add
> > mlock statistic in memory.stat" from the akpm tree.
> >
> > I just dropped the akpm patch for now.
>
> Thanks, Stephen.
>
> However, the patch is known to be broken and, according to mm-commits,
> was removed from -mm on May 16 already. How'd it reappear?

Andrew only send me a new set of patches at irregular intervals, in this
case the last set arrived on May 10/11. I just keep rebasing the patches
until Andrew sends me a new set (Andrew: big hint :-)).

I will remove that patch tomorrow in any case.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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