linux-next: x86-latest/powerpc-next merge conflict

Alexander van Heukelum heukelum at fastmail.fm
Mon Apr 21 21:30:45 EST 2008


On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:19:50 +0200, "Alexander van Heukelum"
<heukelum at fastmail.fm> said:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:51:02 +0200, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo at elte.hu> said:
> > * Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Today's linux-next merge of the x86-latest tree got a conflict in 
> > > include/asm-powerpc/bitops.h between commit 
> > > cd008c0f03f3d451e5fbd108b8e74079d402be64 ("generic: implement __fls on 
> > > all 64-bit archs") from the x86-latest tree and commit 
> > > 9f264be6101c42cb9e471c58322fb83a5cde1461 ("[POWERPC] Optimize fls64() 
> > > on 64-bit processors") from the powerpc-next tree.  The fixup was not 
> > > quite trivial and is worth a look to see if I got it right.
> 
> [...]
> 
> I've tried to take a look if you got it right, but the linux-next tree
> on git.kernel.org is 5 days old. If that's the current state then it's
> not merged right ;).

And it just started showing the new version. The merge went fine.

> Greetings,
>     Alexander
> 
> > Paul, do you agree with those generic bitops changes? Just in case it's 
> > not obvious from previous discussions: we'll push them upstream via a 
> > separate pull request, not via usual x86.git changes. They originated 
> > from x86.git but grew into a more generic improvement for all. They sit 
> > in x86.git for tester convenience but are of course not pure x86 changes 
> > anymore.
> > 
> > 	Ingo
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