Re: RFC: kill off ioremap_nocache

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 10:48:20AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> How many conflicts will this result in generally? I like it, but I'd
> like to have some idea of whether it ends up being one of those
> "really painful churn" things?
> 
> A couple of conflicts isn't an issue - they'll be trivial to fix. It's
> the "this causes fifty silly conflicts" that I worry about, partly
> because it then makes submaintainers inevitably do the wrong thing (ie
> "I foresee an excessive amount of 'git rebase' rants next release").

I had about a dozend and a half conflicts rebasing this weekend,
the previous version was approx -rc6 IIRC.