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

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 07:09:44AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

> But how come you're saying it was discovered "today" ?

> Paul's commit ad6ef775cbeff was committed to rcu tree on Mar 30,
> while Kumar's 57b23c0f612dc was committed to bpf-next on Apr 7.

> "today" is April 14.

> My only explanation is that rcu tree was not in linux-next until today?!

We're in the merge window, this means things get sent to Linus and end
up in his tree.  This in turn means that they are seen in different
orders, and sometimes depending on context in different forms.  -next
is merged sequentially, it's not an octopus merge of all the trees at
once.  Some variation of this will likely have been seen before, but not
this exact combination.

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