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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
Cc: linux-next@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat•com>,
	Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium•org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the modules tree with the  tree
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:51:49 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vce0oh2a.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121022123553.240d9ddf05cd5e2c8fee0ab3@canb.auug.org.au>

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au> writes:

> Hi Rusty,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the modules tree got a conflict in
> kernel/module.c between commit caabe240574a ("MODSIGN: Move the magic
> string to the end of a module and eliminate the search") from Linus' tree
> and commit 0250abdeec54 ("module: add syscall to load module from fd")
> from the modules tree.
>
> I fixed it up (I think - see below) and can carry the fix as necessary
> (no action is required).
>
> I do wonder why the above change in Linus' tree seems to have bypassed
> the modules maintainer.

Yes.  David tacked it on to a real bugfix which went straight to Linus;
having fixed my mess I couldn't complain too much (though I had NAKed
similar patches in the past).

I will rebase my -next tree today.

Cheers,
Rusty.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-24 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-22  1:35 linux-next: manual merge of the modules tree with the tree Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-22  2:09 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-24  0:21 ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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