Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the vfs tree

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Jul 18 2022 - 00:59:01 EST


On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 12:59:32PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2022 02:04:02 +0100 Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 01:52:25AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> >
> > > Ones from Keith's branch - #alignment-fixes-rebased in there. Looks like
> > > one of the commits in it got changed since then - the difference in
> > > __bio_iov_iter_get_pages() (unsigned int i initialization).
> > >
> > > Sigh... I'll rebase on top of that.
> >
> > Rebased and pushed out (with copy_pipe_to_iter() fix folded in as well)
>
> BTW, these still cause a conflict. As long as you are sharing patches
> (and then adding changes to the same areas), there will be conflicts.
> You need to share commits i.e. a shared branch.

Sigh... That was (and is) a branch form Keith's tree. Commits in block
tree are, AFAICS, cherry-picked from it, with lore links and Jens' s-o-b
added.

I'm fine with using that, just tell me how to refer to the branch in
question. Jens?