Re: linux-next: Tree for May 23 (uml)

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 09:13:06AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 2)
> > 	Cherry-picked these guys into signal.git, along with the rest
> > of signal prereqs for them.  Merge with next/akpm-base yields a couple
> > of trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c (with
> > 	sched, mm: Rework sched_{fork,exec} node assignment
> > removing INIT_LIST_HEAD right next to the place where we add one; conflict
> > resolution being just keep the one Oleg adds and remove the one Peter removes)
> > and in kernel/irq/manage.c (with
> > 	genirq: Be more informative on irq type mismatch
> > changing a couple of printks in there; conflict resolution: just remove
> > exit_irq_thread() in merged variant).  That's for-next-variant2.  With that
> > variant we get 5 more duplicates with next/akpm, obviously.
> > 
> > Stephen, which way would you prefer it handled?
> 
> So variant2 sits on top of variant1 and you are intending to push the
> work in variant2 in this merge window anyway?   In that case variant2
> makes sense.  The number of small conflicts don't matter to much (up to a
> point anyway :-)).  Also, these cherry-picks are out of Andrew's tree,
> right (so they are already in linuc-next)?  In which case I would
> probably go with variant2.

Fine by me...  Pushed into for-next, should be on git.kernel.org shortly...