> On Jan 6, 2016, at 7:01 AM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> On Jan 4, 2016, at 2:36 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 09:53:20PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
>>> On 01/03/2016 08:44 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:30:22 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Doug,
>>>>>
>>>>> Today's linux-next merge of the rdma tree got conflicts in a quite a
>>>>> few files between (mostly, I think) commit:
>>>>>
>>>>> 6c7b6d2d442c ("IB: merge struct ib_device_attr into struct ib_device")
>>>>>
>>>>> from the nfsd tree and various commits from the rdma tree.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would have taken me considerable time to fix the conflicts up, so I
>>>>> have dropped teh rdma tree for today (just because it was merged second).
>>>>> Please have a conversation and figure out how you are going to cooperate
>>>>> and get these conflicts fixed e.g. set up a stable branch with Christoph's
>>>>> commit (and any other conflicting commits) in it and merge that into
>>>>> both trees.
>>>>
>>>> So, on further inspection, it appears that there is a series of commits
>>>> in the rdma tree that does basically the same as that nfsd tree commit
>>>> above. So I have dropped the rdma tree again today. Please have a
>>>> conversation guys ...
>>>>
>>>
>>> The initial patchset was Christoph's. It was later replaced with a
>>> different patchset from Or Gerlitz. Bruce picked up some changes from
>>> Chuck Lever that were originally based on Christoph's work but now need
>>> to be rebased off of the current RDMA tree.
>>
>> OK. I'm assuming Chuck will want to do any necessary rebasing and
>> retesting himself, so for now I've just dropped those patches, and
>> expect to pick up new versions when Chuck gets back from the holidays.
>
> Part of the plan was that Doug's tree would be merged before
> Bruce's. But the above problem description looks like the
> maintainer trees were merged into linux-next in the other order.
>
> I'd like to make this simpler for everyone. Bruce, may I send
> my for-4.5 NFS/RDMA server patches to Doug with your Acked-by?
> That way, merge order won't matter.
Also, I see Dan Carpenter has posted a couple of clean-ups for
this series. I can include them with my upcoming repost if you
wish.
--
Chuck Lever
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