Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: fix spelling mistake "Falied" -> "Failed"

[daniel]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 09:36:41AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Wed, 05 Aug 2020 15:19:38 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2020-08-05 at 17:27 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 4:53 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> > > > On Wed, 2020-08-05 at 16:01 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:  
> > > > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:35 AM Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> > > > > > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > There is a spelling mistake in a DRM_ERROR message. Fix it.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
> > > > > 
> > > > > This is already fixed.  
> > > > 
> > > > This fix is not in today's -next.
> > > > 
> > > > Perhaps whatever tree it's fixed in should be in -next.
> > > >   
> > > 
> > > Weird.  It's in the drm-next tree as:
> > > 
> > > commit 4afaa61db9cf5250b5734c2531b226e7b3a3d691
> > > Author: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Fri Jul 10 09:37:58 2020 +0100
> > > 
> > >     drm/amdgpu: fix spelling mistake "Falied" -> "Failed"
> > > 
> > >     There is a spelling mistake in a DRM_ERROR error message. Fix it.
> > > 
> > >     Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >     Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Alex
> > >   
> > > > $ git show --oneline -s
> > > > d15fe4ec0435 (HEAD, tag: next-20200805, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Add linux-next specific files for 20200805
> > > > 
> > > > $ git grep -i falied drivers
> > > > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_psp.c:                DRM_ERROR("Falied to terminate tmr\n");
> > > >   
> > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_psp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_psp.c  
> > > > []  
> > > > > > @@ -2010,7 +2010,7 @@ static int psp_suspend(void *handle)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >         ret = psp_tmr_terminate(psp);
> > > > > >         if (ret) {
> > > > > > -               DRM_ERROR("Falied to terminate tmr\n");
> > > > > > +               DRM_ERROR("Failed to terminate tmr\n");
> > > > > >                 return ret;
> > > > > >         }  
> > 
> > Dunno.
> > 
> > Maybe it's due to some ordering of trees in
> > how -next accumulates patches?
> 
> The spelling error is introduced in two commits:
> 
>   c564b8601ae9 ("drm/amdgpu: add TMR destory function for psp")
> 
> in Linus' tree between v5.8-rc4 and rc5
> 
>   90937420c44f ("drm/amdgpu: add TMR destory function for psp")
> 
> in the amdgpu tree between two merges by the drm tree.  In this same
> interval, the error is corrected by commit
> 
>   4afaa61db9cf ("drm/amdgpu: fix spelling mistake "Falied" -> "Failed"")
> 
> so when David comes to merge the amdgpu tree in commit
> 
>   206739119508 ("Merge tag 'amd-drm-next-5.9-2020-07-17' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next")
> 
> the spelling error has been introduced on one side of the merge and
> introduced and corrected on the other.  This would have produced a
> conflict which David presumably resolved in haste by picking the HEAD
> side of the merge instead of the MERGE_HEAD side (it happens).
> 
> This could have been avoided by not cherry-picking fix commits around
> in the amdgpu process - instead having a fixes branch that is merged
> into the next branch after the fixes branch has been accepted upstream
> (that way there is only one commit for each fix and less conflicts).
> 
> I have to deal with these sort of conflicts (sometimes daily) due to
> the drm processes.  Its a pain as I have to track down each conflict to
> see if the same patches appear on both sides of merges and then try to
> figure out what other changes occur.  (This is only slightly helped by
> have the "cherry-picked from" tags in the fix commits.)

Yeah cherry-picking breaks if you only occasionally cherry-pick - then
stuff gets lost.

I'd say just apply it once more for the merge window fixes pull.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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