> -----Original Message----- > From: devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:devel- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of KY Srinivasan > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 8:41 PM > To: Greg KH > Cc: Abhishek Kane (Mindtree Consulting PVT LTD); Haiyang Zhang; > gregkh@xxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [PATCH 05/22] Staging: hv: Get rid of the forward declaration of > blkvsc_init_rw() > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 4:35 PM > > To: KY Srinivasan > > Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Haiyang Zhang; > > Abhishek Kane (Mindtree Consulting PVT LTD) > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/22] Staging: hv: Get rid of the forward declaration of > > blkvsc_init_rw() > > > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 02:35:03PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > Get rid of the forward declaration of blkvsc_init_rw() by moving the > > > code around. > > > > This patch fails to apply: > > > > Applying: Staging: hv: Get rid of the forward declaration of blkvsc_init_rw() > > error: patch failed: drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc_drv.c:1000 > > error: drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc_drv.c: patch does not apply > > Patch failed at 0005 Staging: hv: Get rid of the forward declaration of > > blkvsc_init_rw() > > > > So I'll stop at this patch in the series. > > As I look at the git log in today's tree, > the topmost patch of mine that is applied is: > > Staging: hv: Get rid of blkvsc_check_events() > > This is a patch that is not even in the patch-set that you were currently > applying. On April 6th, I sent three patch-sets (all these 3 were resends > after the tree opened): > > 0000-Staging-hv-Cleanup-storage-drivers-phase-II-fixup: This was a two patch > series to > fix-up some bugs. This has been applied. > > 0000-Staging-hv-Cleanup-storage-drivers-phase-III: This was a 22 patch-set of > which you applied 4 patches and the application of the fifth caused a failure > (as noted by you in this mail). > > 0000-Staging-hv-Cleanup-storage-drivers-phase-IV: This was a 22 patch set > That should have been applied last. > > For some reason, after you applied 4 patches from the second set, > looking at the git log, it looks like a patch from the third set was > applied: > > Subject: [PATCH 01/22] Staging: hv: Get rid of blkvsc_check_events() > > This is the reason why > [PATCH 05/22] Staging: hv: Get rid of the forward declaration of blkvsc_init_rw() > failed to apply. I am curious if I did something wrong that might have caused > this problem. > > With regards to rectifying this problem, if you can roll-back that last patch > that was applied out of order, then I think everything should apply just > fine. If this is not possible, I would need to re-spin the 40 odd patches > that currently fail to apply. Greg, I am pretty much done with spinning up the patches that are yet to be applied with against this morning's tree. I will be sending them to you shortly. Regards, K. Y _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
