Re: linux-next: duplicate patches in the kspp and kbuild trees

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Jun 13 2016 - 19:57:21 EST


On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Kees,
>>
>> As of today, there are four duplicate patches (different commits)
>> in the kspp and kbuild trees.
>>
>> Shared library support
>> GCC plugin infrastructure
>> Add Cyclomatic complexity GCC plugin
>> Add sancov plugin
>>
>> are in both trees as different commits :-( They have been in the kbuild
>> tree for a couple of days already. One of you should be merging the
>> other's branch, or you both should be mergeing a common branch.
>>
>> Also, Kees, the versions in your tree do not have your Signed-off-by
>> (but do have Michal's).
>
> Strange, I pulled these directly from linux-next. Michal had an
> auto-responder saying he was going to be out-of-office, so I wanted to
> make sure the !COMPILE_TEST fix got in.
>
> Sounds like I should merge the kbuild tree, rather than cherry-picking
> from linux-next? I will adjust.

I've done this merge correctly now and pushed a forced update on the kspp tree.

-Kees

>
> Sorry for the confusion!
>
> -Kees
>
> --
> Kees Cook
> Chrome OS & Brillo Security



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