On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 08:13:12PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 05:08:33PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote: > > Hi Ross, > > > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 2:48 PM, kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Souptick, > > > > > > Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve: > > > > > > [auto build test ERROR on v4.16] > > > [cannot apply to linus/master v4.17-rc1 next-20180418] > > > > Does it mean patch was initially applied in v4.16 ? > > Yes. > > > As v4.16 build breaks it fails to apply in v4.17-rc1 and next-20180418 ? > > When there is a build fail the robot will apply-and-test the patch on > more base trees. Here the patch cannot apply to linus/master, > v4.17-rc1 and next-20180418, so cannot be further tested there. Right - this needs to be rebased onto the current linux/master, as it currently collides with a patch from Dan which went into v4.17-rc1.