Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the integrity tree

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Fri Mar 13 2020 - 10:54:27 EST


On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 21:07 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the akpm-current tree got a conflict in:
>
> arch/x86/Kconfig
>
> between commits:
>
> 9e2b4be377f0 ("ima: add a new CONFIG for loading arch-specific policies")
>
> from the integrity tree and commit:
>
> faaa52178603 ("userfaultfd: wp: add WP pagetable tracking to x86")
>
> from the akpm-current tree.
>
> I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary. This
> is now fixed as far as linux-next is concerned, but any non trivial
> conflicts should be mentioned to your upstream maintainer when your tree
> is submitted for merging. You may also want to consider cooperating
> with the maintainer of the conflicting tree to minimise any particularly
> complex conflicts.
>
> Note that I put the selects in their correct alphabetical position as
> asked by the comment higher up in the file. If that had been done in
> the patches, then there would have been no conflicts ...

True. ÂThanks, Stephan. ÂBefore moving it to "its proper location",
I'm wondering if there should be a separate section for "imply".

Mimi