Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] fix some type infos and bugs for arm64/of numa

[Leizhen (ThunderTown)]

On 2016/6/7 21:58, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 04:08:04PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
>> v3 -> v4:
>> 1. Packed three patches of Kefeng Wang, patch6-8.
>> 2. Add 6 new patches(9-15) to enhance the numa on arm64.
>>
>> v2 -> v3:
>> 1. Adjust patch2 and patch5 according to Matthias Brugger's advice, to make the
>>    patches looks more well. The final code have no change. 
>>
>> v1 -> v2:
>> 1. Base on https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/24/679
> 
> If you want bug fixes to land in 4.7, you'll need to base them on a
> mainline kernel.

I heared that David Daney's acpi numa patch series was accepted and put into next branch(Linux 4.8).
Otherwise I will suggest him sending his patch6-7 to mainline first. So that, only a very small conflict
will be exist.

I also tested that:
1. git am David Daney's patch6-7, then git am all of my patches on a branch, named branch A.
2. git am David Daney's patch6-7 on another branch, named branch B.
3. when I git merge B into branch A, it's still conflict. So I guess git merge is based on source code, rather than patches.

So at present, unless the maintainers are willing to resolve the conflict, otherwise I update my patches will not work.

Fortunately, these patches are not particularly urgent. So I think I can wait until Linux 4.8 start, then send these patches again.
But I'm not sure whether these patches can be merged into Linux 4.8, I really hope.

> 
> Will
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