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SubjectRe: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the vfs tree
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 09:00:18PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 01/26/2015 08:57 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >Hi Jens,
> >
> >Today's linux-next merge of the block tree got a conflict in
> >drivers/block/loop.c between commit c2ca80413553 ("loop: convert to
> >vfs_iter_read/write") from the vfs tree and commit b5dd2f6047ca
> >("block: loop: improve performance via blk-mq") and several others from
> >the block tree.
> >
> >I have no idea how fixed it up so I just used the version of the file
> >from the block tree (its been there a while). Please have a chat and
> >figure out how to combine these two large changes.
>
> Why isn't the loop patch in the block tree? That'd avoid such
> incidents. We could add a dependency for the required VFS patch.

I don't mind opening a never-rebased branch for generic iov_iter-related stuff;
if you prefer to handle it that way - just tell. The first two patches
from that series would definitely go there; as for the rest... no preferences
here.


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