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

From: Ronnie Sahlberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 23:37:42 -0400 (EDT)

Steve,

Looks good. It builds and seems to work in my testing.
Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve French" <[email-masked]>
To: "Stephen Rothwell" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "CIFS" <[email-masked]>, "Linux-Next Mailing List" <[email-masked]>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <[email-masked]>, "Kees Cook" <[email-masked]>, "Ronnie Sahlberg" <[email-masked]>, "Aurelien Aptel" <[email-masked]>
Sent: Thursday, 14 June, 2018 10:40:43 AM
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the cifs tree with Linus' tree

Ronnie,

I fixed up that patch and repushed to cifs-2.6.git for-next.  Seems
trivial. Let me know if any issues.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 6:01 PM, Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the cifs tree got a conflict in:
>
>   fs/cifs/transport.c
>
> between commit:
>
>   6da2ec56059c ("treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array()")
>
> from Linus' tree and commit:
>
>   1560d69e21c6 ("cifs: push rfc1002 generation down the stack")
>
> from the cifs tree.
>
> I fixed it up (the latter removed the code modified by the former) and
> can carry the fix as necessary. This is now fixed as far as linux-next
> is concerned, but any non trivial conflicts should be mentioned to your
> upstream maintainer when your tree is submitted for merging.  You may
> also want to consider cooperating with the maintainer of the conflicting
> tree to minimise any particularly complex conflicts.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell

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Thanks,

Steve