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From: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the jc_docs tree with the vfs and net-next trees
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 17:00:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6db686525ee6e1eeda0201efc61d361f@sk2.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200518062253.24709cec@lwn.net>

Le 18/05/2020 14:22, Jonathan Corbet a écrit :
> On Mon, 18 May 2020 12:30:13 +1000
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
>> Today's linux-next merge of the jc_docs tree got a conflict in:
>> 
>>   kernel/sysctl.c
>> 
>> between commit:
>> 
>>   f461d2dcd511 ("sysctl: avoid forward declarations")
>> 
>> from the vfs tree and commit:
>> 
>>   2f4c33063ad7 ("docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max")
>> 
>> from the jc_docs tree.
> 
> Hmm...that's somewhat messy.  I somehow managed to miss the change to
> kernel/sysctl.c that doesn't have much to do with documentation.  
> Stephen
> (Kitt): I've reverted that change for now.  Could I ask you to resubmit 
> it
> as two different patches?  I'll happily take the actual docs change; 
> the
> sysctl change can be sent to the VFS tree on top of the changes there.

Done, thanks.

> In general we really don't want to mix unrelated changes like this.

Noted, I’ll avoid mixing changes in future.

Regards,

Stephen

      reply	other threads:[~2020-05-18 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-18  2:30 linux-next: manual merge of the jc_docs tree with the vfs and net-next trees Stephen Rothwell
2020-05-18 12:22 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-18 15:00   ` Stephen Kitt [this message]

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