Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the nolibc tree with the vfs-brauner tree

From: Thomas Weißschuh <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 08:27:21 +0200

Hi everybody,

On 2023-08-24 14:10:08+1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Today's linux-next merge of the nolibc tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   49319832de90 ("selftests/nolibc: drop test chmod_net")
> 
> from the vfs-brauner tree and commit:
> 
>   148e9718e2a2 ("selftests/nolibc: add chmod_argv0 test")
> 
> from the nolibc tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary. This
> is now fixed as far as linux-next is concerned, but any non trivial
> conflicts should be mentioned to your upstream maintainer when your tree
> is submitted for merging.  You may also want to consider cooperating
> with the maintainer of the conflicting tree to minimise any particularly
> complex conflicts.

This is fallout from the recent removal of
"selftests/nolibc: drop test chmod_net" from the nolibc tree.

Christian:

You mentioned before that you plan to have this series in
-next for some time. If you only submit it to Linux for 6.7 or later
then you have to, if I understand the process correctly, rebase your
-next branch on Linus' master after 6.6-rc1.
6.6-rc1 should contain the conflicting nolibc changes, so you would need
to resolve the conflict during rebasing.
The patch is intentionally made to be easy to resolve conflicts for,
just delete the line containing "CASE_TEST(chmod_net)".

Everyone:

What is your opinion on that?

Sorry for all the inconvenience this tiny series causes!
Thomas