Re: [PATCH v3 bluetooth-next] Simplify lowpan receive path so skb is freed in, lowpan_rcv when dropped.

[Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>]

Hi Marcel,

On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 08:35:48AM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> >>>> The changes were made to a clone of bluetooth-next, do I have the right repository?
> >>>> 
> >>>> martin@martin-HP-ProDesk-490-G1-MT:~/workspace/bluetooth-next$ git ls-remote
> >>>> From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git
> >>>> 
> >>> yes, but maybe it's a little bit outdated. Try to update it, on top of
> >>> git log should be the patches:
> >>> 
> >>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git/log/
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> I think I know now why it fails. This patch depends on your previous patch
> >> ("6lowpan: Remove ununsed dev parameter from skb_delivery_cb
> >> callback."), otherwise I get merge conflicts.
> >> 
> >> Normally you need to send this in a series of patches to avoid something
> >> like this. Now you need to wait until your patch ("6lowpan: Remove
> >> ununsed dev parameter from skb_delivery_cb callback.") go into the
> >> bluetooth-next tree.
> >> 
> > 
> > Or write in the patch file under the "---" lines:
> > 
> > "This patch depends on..." if Marcel can deal with this kind of
> > dependency notification.
> > 
> > Otherwise nobody knows what's going on now and want to apply it on
> > bluetooth-next, like me...
> > 
> > 
> > btw. lines after "---" will be ignored by applying.
> 
> so I am fine either way. You can mention this in the section after --- or you just send a patch set that is versioned [PATCH x/y].
> 
> Just right now I am delaying applying net/6lowpan/ patches until John, Dave and I have resolved the merge conflicts for getting the current patches into net-next. After that I will start actively applying these patches.
> 

Thanks for explanation and carry about the merge conflicts. Sorry about
that there exists now a huge merge conflicts, but this should never
happen if all 802.15.4/6lowpan stuff goes into bluetooth.

- Alex