Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Add kdbus implementation

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Jan 16 2015 - 17:18:35 EST


On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 05:07:25PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This can also be found in a git tree, the kdbus branch of char-misc.git at:
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git/
>
> Is this now the canonical tree? I ask because the github tree hasn't
> been updated in quite some time.

That's my fault, it's just a mirror of the code.google.com tree for
people who like to use github. It's now updated.

> The code.google.com tree has commits
> from 2 days ago, but it still calls d_materialise_unique in fs.c
> whereas the patchset you've posted uses the correct d_splice_alias.
> So the code.google.com tree doesn't actually compile against 3.19-rcX.
>
> I'm confused where we're supposed to track things now.

I think the google tree is the "correct" one, but when generating
patches, apis are tweaked to work properly with the latest -rc kernel
for submission.

Daniel knows more though, he's the one generating the patchsets, I don't
know how he's doing it exactly.

thanks,

greg k-h
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