Re: linux-next: manual merge of the lblnet tree

[Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>]

Paul Moore wrote:
> On Monday 08 December 2008 4:16:24 pm James Morris wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Paul Moore wrote:
>>     
>>> James, is the security-testing tree rebased regularly or is
>>> suitable to back a tree against?
>>>       
>> No, it doesn't get rebased.
>>     
>
> Okay, experiment time.  I think I managed to pull from all the right 
> spots, merge everything appropriately and end up with a security/ 
> directory that builds so I pushed it back out to the lblnet-2.6_next 
> tree.  I'm not quite sure the proper etiquette here but I had to fix 
> Casey's patch a bit since it would apply cleanly; Casey if you could 
> take a look I would appreciate it (it isn't exactly like what Stephen 
> posted earlier but it is pretty darn close).
>
>   

The Smack Verification Laboratory reports that lblnet-2.6_next is
working as expected for UDP and TCP.

>>>  If so, I can rebase the lblnet-2.6_next tree
>>> against security-testing to resolve the conflict ...
>>>       
>> Ok, and I can carry your patches in there if necessary.
>>     
>
> I would like to figure out to make this work as it is likely to happen 
> again at some point in the future, but if I can't get it working 
> quickly I may punt on it and ask you to pull in the patches.
>
>