Re: [PATCH 1/2] infiniband: qplib_fp: fix pointer cast

[Doug Ledford]

On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 13:31 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Arnd sent in a two patch series and it got put into our for-next branch.
> >  But, the two patches are the *only* two remaining issues for the arm
> > builds on the kernelci system.  They would like to get this into for-rc
> > so that the build failures stop.  Are you OK with me just cherry-picking
> > them from for-next to for-rc so I can send them to you?  They'll show as
> > duplicates in the next merge window, but should drop silently.
> 
> Go ahead, assuming there are no other planned changes around them that
> would cause potential pointless merge problems..

These two patches will be fine in that regard.  They aren't in the area
where all the syzkaller bugs have been getting fixed.  But I need to
merge for-rc into for-next because of all of the syzkaller bugs being
fixed.  We are running into a situation where code updates that were
planned are in areas where syzkaller bugs have been fixed and there
would be significant merge conflicts if I didn't.  So, the plan as it
stands is: get the needed patches in for-rc, merge for-rc to for-next,
then cherry pick from for-next to for-rc just the two patches here
(since I have no idea how cherry picking to for-rc and then merging for-
rc to for-next would play out, I'm just not gonna try it).

It's a bit convoluted, but as long as I don't use my standard git
request pull macro when generating the pull request (it will pick the
wrong merge base every time whenever you've merged for-rc into for-next, 
you have to manually find the alternate merge base and use the right one
for git request pull) it comes out nicely in the end.

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