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From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat•com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat•com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV•linux.org.uk>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org, James Morris <jmorris@namei•org>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@us•ibm.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the audit tree
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:01:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1228935701.3524.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13157.1228935509@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 18:58 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > Today's linux-next merge of the audit tree got a lot of conflict in
> > include/linux/audit.h, kernel/auditsc.c, kernel/capability.c and
> > security/commoncap.c against commits in the security-testing tree.
> > 
> > Its not obvious how to resolve these, so can you, Eric, James and Dave
> > have a conversation and see what you can come up with.  Some will be
> > easy, but there are several overlapping changes here.
> > 
> > Looking harder, it looks like some (all?) of Eric's patches may already
> > be in the security-testing tree ...
> > 
> > I have dropped the audit tree for today.
> 
> I've looked at all the conflicting bits, and I think you should take what's in
> the security tree over what's in Al's tree for all of them.  I think the
> security tree already has everything that Al's tree applies in the conflicting
> areas, it's just that the security tree has further changes parked on top.
> 
> David

I think David is right, all the conflicts should come from
security-testing.  Al does have other good stuff in his tree though, Al
do you want to just kick all of my patches out?

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-10 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-09  6:57 linux-next: manual merge of the audit tree Stephen Rothwell
2008-12-10 18:58 ` David Howells
2008-12-10 19:01   ` Eric Paris [this message]
2008-12-10 19:33     ` David Howells
2008-12-11  6:31       ` Al Viro
2008-12-11  9:01         ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-12-10 23:28     ` Al Viro

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