Re: [GIT] Networking

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Wed Oct 05 2016 - 22:52:11 EST


Hi Linus,

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 19:14:21 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Except that commit effectively moved that function from
> > net/netfilter/nf_tables_netdev.c to
> > include/net/netfilter/nf_tables_ipv4.h while commit c73c24849011
> > ("netfilter: nf_tables_netdev: remove redundant ip_hdr assignment")
> > removed the assignment in the original file (and has been in your tree
> > since v4.8-rc7) and that is where I originally actually got a conflict.
>
> Oh, interesting. Why didn't I get the conflict there then?
>
> I'm guessing (but too lazy to actually look up the history), that
> David ended up doing that merge and that ends up being why I never saw
> a conflict.

Yeah, commit b50afd203a5e ("Merge
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net") actually
merges v4.8 into the net-next tree.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell