Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with the powerpc tree

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:10:31 +1000

On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 16:56 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Today's linux-next merge of the akpm tree got a conflict in
> arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c between commit b0b0aa9c7faf
> ("powerpc/hw_brk: Fix setting of length for exact mode breakpoints") from
> the powerpc tree and commit "ptrace/powerpc: revert "hw_breakpoints: Fix
> racy access to ptrace breakpoints"" from the akpm tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary (no action
> is required).

Where does the latter come from ? Why didn't it go through the powerpc tree ?

Cheers,
Ben.