Re: Patch "drm/nouveau/mmu/nv4a: use nv04 mmu rather than the nv44 one" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 07:49:50PM -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > This patch appears to have misapplied. I'm not sure why cherry-pick
> > got it wrong, but this is meant to go in the nv4a_chipset definition,
> > not nv44_chipset.
> >
> > This comment also applies to the 4.4 and 4.11 cherry-picks you just did.
> 
> Aha, I see what happened. f94773b9f5ecd1df7c88c2e921924dd41d2020cc
> made it into v4.11. However by then it appears to have also made it
> into drm-next as ac799acaa4d8db4f7dcd968b15c9596c80a4677f and thus the
> drm merge into v4.12. So now you have two versions of the same commit
> and are trying to cherry-pick both.

Why in the world would you include the same patch in two different trees
with two different git ids?  I'm _really_ starting to hate the drm
trees...

> I'm guessing it's also the reason why your cherrypick of my other
> commit failed (ad01a91a820cd9f0d880c407bf556b67298dcc93).

That would make sense, but again, why is this happening?

> And I might note that
> "drm-nouveau-mmu-nv4a-use-nv04-mmu-rather-than-the-nv44-one.patch" was
> already there before, so didn't make it into your "4.9-stable patches"
> commit on the stable-queue git tree.

Ok, so what should i do here?  Drop all of the nouveau patches?  Some of
them?  Which ones were wrong?

totally confused and grumpy,

greg k-h



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