Re: for-4.8/drivers and Linus' tree + staging conflicts?

[Jens Axboe]

On 07/15/2016 10:19 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> Hey Jens,
>
> I have some patches for Xen block driver that are based on Linus's tree
> which has:
> 7b427a5     xen-blkfront: save uncompleted reqs in blkfront_resume()
>
> That particular patch conflicts with your for-4.8/driver branch.
>
> What I was wondering is if:
>
>  1) Do you want me to create a branh for you to pull in your
>     for-4.8/drivers that has the above patch (and a resolution)?
>     And along with that the rest of the patches I've for 4.8?

No, I don't want a lot of extra gunk.

>  2) Or if you are going rebase your 'for-4.8/drivers' branch
>    on top of v4.7-rc7 (which will pull in the above commit?)

Or that, I never rebase those branches.

>  3) Stash the patches I've in the Xen tip tree (which is
>    based on 4.7-rc7) for 4.8 with me putting your Ack on them?
>    See below log and the full diff.

We can do that, or I can stage them for post initial merge (essentially 
my for-linus, which I could base on 4.7-rc7 now). I'm fine with either.

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Jens Axboe