Re: [PATCH] iio: buffer: re-introduce bitmap_zalloc() for trialmask

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:18:43 +0100
Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 3/17/20 1:53 PM, Ardelean, Alexandru wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-03-17 at 14:52 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:  
> >> [External]
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:36:21PM +0200, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:  
> >>> Commit 3862828a903d3 ("iio: buffer: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()") introduced
> >>> bitmap_alloc(), but commit 20ea39ef9f2f9 ("iio: Fix scan mask selection")
> >>> reverted it.
> >>>
> >>> This change adds it back. The only difference is that it's adding
> >>> bitmap_zalloc(). There might be some changes later that would require
> >>> initializing it to zero. In any case, now it's already zero-ing the
> >>> trialmask.  
> >>
> >> FWIW,
> >> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > And sorry for the hiccup back there.  
> 
> It looks like a merge conflict. Both patches are in parallel sub-trees. 
> I guess one went through fixes and the other through the normal tree and 
> then when they were merged, the issue was not resolved properly.
> 
> 2019-04-21 Greg Kroah-Hartman   Mââ Merge 5.1-rc6 into staging-next
> 2019-02-20 Lars-Peter Clausen   â o iio: Fix scan mask selection
> 2019-03-04 Andy Shevchenko      o â iio: buffer: Switch to bitmap_zalloc
> 2018-02-20 Greg Kroah-Hartman   Mââ Merge tag 'iio-fixes-for-4.16a

Thanks for the detective work. I've added a note to the patch description.

Jonathan