Re: [PATCH] x86: more header fixes

["Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> thanks Vegard, these changes are looking rather good. I've created a
> tip/x86/header-guards topic for it and did a test-merge. There were 30+
> trivial conflicts with tip/master that were easy to fix - find the list
> of conflicting files below.
>
> Lets keep these changes out of tip/master for now though, to reduce the
> churn - i'll do a merge/rebase in the v2.6.27-rc1 timeframe, ok?
>
> or perhaps we could include it in tip/master right now as well, if you
> did another branch that excluded the files below. That would make
> merging a lot easier - and we could do a second phase in v2.6.27-rc1.
> Hm?

I don't think we really need to resolve conflicts at all. What we can
do is simply to re-run the scripts against tip/master whenever you
want the update.

I have created a 'for-tip' branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/linux-2.6-headers.git
which is a re-run against the most recent tip/master. (The previous
link was against something rather old like -rc6.)

I am not sure this is what you wanted. In either case, re-running is
not a problem, and neither is excluding a set of files. Please do this
with as little pain for yourself as possible. The purpose of the
script is to avoid manual work.

Also, by the way: Can -tip now be cloned with --shared to save space
as long as I only have branches with references to commits in
tip/master? Or is this still to be considered unsafe?


Vegard

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