From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 08:53:26 -0700 Subject: git fetch and git merge stable kernel In-Reply-To: <1396432921.78576.YahooMailNeo@web122305.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1396382218.26822.YahooMailNeo@web122301.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20140401213401.GA27602@kroah.com> <1396409125.61334.YahooMailNeo@web122302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20140402033549.GA13042@kroah.com> <1396432921.78576.YahooMailNeo@web122305.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20140402155326.GA6882@kroah.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 03:02:01AM -0700, Anand Moon wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I have performed following operations listed below. > > amoon at moon-ubuntu:imx_3.05-udoo-back$ git remote add stable git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git > > amoon at moon-ubuntu:imx_3.05-udoo-back$ git fetch stable v3.2.55 > warning: no common commits That's the problem right there. You aren't working on a tree that is actually based on the Linux kernel upstream tree. Merging into this tree is going to be an impossible task, as you have found out :( Please work with the company who gave you this tree to rebase it on top of the community tree in order to resolve this issue. good luck, greg k-h