Re: [git patches] libata updates

Jeff Garzik
2012-07-25T22:26:37Z

On 07/25/2012 06:06 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 04:35:51PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> Please pull 641589bff714f39b33ef1d7f02eaa009f2993b64 from
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git tags/upstream
>>>
>>
>> Oh, I forgot to point out the merge commit, making my HEAD more recent
>> than might be expected. There was a merge conflict and an API change
>> that needed to be dealt with, in order for your pull to be correct.
>
> So I'd *much* rather see an explanation of what the conflict is when
> you ask me to pull, and let me handle it, rather than you pre-merging
> things for me. I *want* to see conflicts between subsystems.
> Seriously.

Tried to add some explanation to the merge commit itself, giving plenty
of detail.

Even so, separately, it still needed that post-merge compile fix.

Jeff