Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the mm-stable tree with the cifs tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 19:05:09 +1100

Hi Matthew,

On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:12:58 +0000 Matthew Wilcox <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 02:29:41PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> > Matthew Wilcox <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >   
> > > Doesn't look too bad to me.  Dave's commit is just removing the
> > > functions, so it doesn't matter how they're being changed.
> > > 
> > > The real question in my mind is why for-next is being updated two days
> > > before the merge window with new patches.  What's the point in -next
> > > if patches are being added at this late point?  
> > 
> > It's more of a transfer of a subset of my iov/splice patches from the
> > linux-block tree to the cifs tree.  I thought Jens would've dropped my branch
> > from his tree for the moment.  
> 
> Your iov/splice patches don't conflict.  The part that you snipped says
> it's c8859bc0c129 ("cifs: Remove unused code")

That is just the immediate conflict. See my other reply.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell