Subject: Re: linux-next: import of the device-mapper series failed

From: Alasdair G Kergon <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 13:45:08 +0100

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 01:22:46PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Trying to import the device-mapper series produce this error:
> $ git am ../quilt/device-mapper/dm-thin-support-discard-with-non-power-of-two-block-size.patch
> Applying: Support discards when the pool's block size is not a power of 2.
> error: patch failed: drivers/md/dm-thin.c:2762
> error: drivers/md/dm-thin.c: patch does not apply
> and indeed the code in question is very different from what the patch
> expects.  Is there a missing patch?

NEXT_BASE is lagging behind BASE: I removed the fixes that already went
upstream - but should probably have waited until NEXT_BASE had picked them up.

Alasdair