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

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:00:25 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> * Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > Today's linux-next merge of the akpm tree got a conflict in:
> > 
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_gem.c
> > 
> > between commit:
> > 
> >   f6e45661f9be ("dma, mm/pat: Rename dma_*_writecombine() to dma_*_wc()")
> > 
> > from the tip tree and patch:
> > 
> >   "dma-mapping: rename dma_*_writecombine() to dma_*_wc()"
> > 
> > from the akpm tree.
> > 
> > These a basically the same patch, so I dropped the one from the akpm tree.
> 
> Andrew, what's your preference for merging it? I can drop it too.
> 

I've dropped the -mm copy.  That's what I do in 99.99% of cases.  Which
means that if the version which was in someone else's -next tree later
gets lost (happens sometimes), the patch is lost altogether.