Re: linux-next: manual merge of the audit tree

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On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 18:58 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Today's linux-next merge of the audit tree got a lot of conflict in
> > include/linux/audit.h, kernel/auditsc.c, kernel/capability.c and
> > security/commoncap.c against commits in the security-testing tree.
> > 
> > Its not obvious how to resolve these, so can you, Eric, James and Dave
> > have a conversation and see what you can come up with.  Some will be
> > easy, but there are several overlapping changes here.
> > 
> > Looking harder, it looks like some (all?) of Eric's patches may already
> > be in the security-testing tree ...
> > 
> > I have dropped the audit tree for today.
> 
> I've looked at all the conflicting bits, and I think you should take what's in
> the security tree over what's in Al's tree for all of them.  I think the
> security tree already has everything that Al's tree applies in the conflicting
> areas, it's just that the security tree has further changes parked on top.
> 
> David

I think David is right, all the conflicts should come from
security-testing.  Al does have other good stuff in his tree though, Al
do you want to just kick all of my patches out?

-Eric

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