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

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On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 01:44:21 -0700 ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
> Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 03:06:57PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >> Hi Eric,
> >> 
> >> Today's linux-next merge of the userns tree got a conflict in
> >> fs/namespace.c between various commits from Linus' tree and various
> >> commits from the userns tree.
> >> 
> >> I fixed it up (hopefully - see below) and can carry the fix as necessary
> >> (no action is required).
> >
> > Various commits include this:
> > commit 38129a13e6e71f666e0468e99fdd932a687b4d7e
> > Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Thu Mar 20 21:10:51 2014 -0400
> >
> >     switch mnt_hash to hlist
> >
> > present in v3.14...  It's been there since before the merge window.
> 
> And the code that is in conflict is even older.  
> 
> I just figured out of an abundance of caution I would make certain the
> code was out there for automatic and semi-automatic things to pound on
> before I resent my pull request to Linus, now that I have fixed the
> stack overflow issue you were complaining about.
> 
> I suspect something about fixing mntput caused Stephen to loose his
> trivial resolution for this trivial conflict.

That would be the three extra commits you added that touched that file -
it throws "git rerere" off and I didn't recognise the source of the
problem.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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