Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with the drm-intel tree

[Jani Nikula]

On Thu, 01 Oct 2020, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 3:53 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 08:39:17PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Today's linux-next merge of the akpm tree got a conflict in:
>> >
>> >   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_pages.c
>> >
>> > between commit:
>> >
>> >   4caf017ee937 ("drm/i915/gem: Avoid implicit vmap for highmem on x86-32")
>> >   ba2ebf605d5f ("drm/i915/gem: Prevent using pgprot_writecombine() if PAT is not supported")
>
> Uh these patches shouldn't be in linux-next because they're for 5.11,
> not the 5.10 merge window that will open soon. Joonas?

I don't know anything else, but both are tagged Cc: stable.

BR,
Jani.

>
>> > from the drm-intel tree and patch:
>> >
>> >   "drm/i915: use vmap in i915_gem_object_map"
>> >
>> > from the akpm tree.
>> >
>> > I fixed it up (I just dropped the changes in the former commits) and
>>
>> Sigh.  The solution is a bit more complicated, but I just redid my
>> patches to not depend on the above ones.  I can revert back to the old
>> version, though.  Andrew, let me know what works for you.
>
> Imo ignore, rebasing onto linux-next without those intel patches was
> the right thing for the 5.10 merge window.
> -Daniel

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center