Re: Unique commit-id for "mm: compaction: [P,p]artially revertcapture of suitable high-order page"

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Mon Jan 14 2013 - 08:09:00 EST


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:27:20PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 05:12:45PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> >> Hi Linus,
> >>
> >> I see two different commit-id for an identical patch (only subject
> >> line differs).
> >> [1] seems to be applied directly and [2] came with a merge of akpm-fixes.
> >> What is in case of backports for -stable kernels?
> >
> > I do not expect it to matter. I was going to use
> > 8fb74b9fb2b182d54beee592350d9ea1f325917a as the commit ID whenever I got
> > the complaint mail from Greg's tools about a 3.7 merge failure. The 3.7.2
> > backport looks like this.
> >
>
> Oh cool and thanks!
> Are you planning to resend this backport-patch to the lists w/ a "3.7"
> (or for-3.7) in the commit-subject?
>

Yes, when I get the reject mail from Greg's tools.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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