Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sysctl tree with the net tree

From: Américo Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:21:43 +0800

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hi Américo,
>
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:51:03 +0800 Américo Wang <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> > diff --cc net/sctp/sysctl.c
>> > index ae03ded,d50a042..0000000
>> > --- a/net/sctp/sysctl.c
>> > +++ b/net/sctp/sysctl.c
>> > @@@ -285,19 -241,7 +242,17 @@@ static ctl_table sctp_table[] =
>> >                .extra1         = &zero,
>> >                .extra2         = &addr_scope_max,
>> >        },
>> >  +      {
>> > -               .ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
>> >  +              .procname       = "rwnd_update_shift",
>> >  +              .data           = &sctp_rwnd_upd_shift,
>> >  +              .maxlen         = sizeof(int),
>> >  +              .mode           = 0644,
>> > -               .proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec_minmax,
>> > -               .strategy       = &sysctl_intvec,
>> > ++              .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_minmax,
>>
>> Hey, what's this??
>
> If you mean "what is this strange looking patch", then it is the output
> from "git diff --cc" after a merge conflict has been fixed up, but before
> it is committed.  The '-' lines were added by one side of the merge or
> the other, but removed from the final result.  The line with '++' did not
> appear in either branch, but is in the final result.  The lines with a
> single '+' appear in one of the branches or the other and in the final
> result as well.
>

Thanks for teaching this! I thought it was a mistake, it is not. :)
No problem then.