Re: linux-next: manual merge of the bpf-next tree with the net tree

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Wed Jul 22 2020 - 13:15:05 EST


On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 8:50 AM Willem de Bruijn
<willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > TBH, I don't what is the preferred way to handle it. Perhaps DaveM or
> > Alexei/Daniel can say what would make their life easiest?
>
> Good point.
>
> With the above, there still remains a merge conflict, of course. But
> then we can take bpf-next as is, so I think it would save a separate
> patch to net. But not sure whether that helps anything. It does add an
> unnecessary variable.

whichever way is easier to deal with merge conflict....
currently bpf-next PR is pending.
but we can drop it and merge one more patch into bpf-next?
But reading through the read it doesn't sound that it will help the
merge conflict..
An alternative could be to drop PR and rebase the whole bpf-next to net-next
and deal with conflicts there...
Or I can rebase bpf-next and drop Jakub's series and he can resubmit them
without conflicts? I guess that's the easiest for me and for Dave.