From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932619AbcI1Nsu (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:48:50 -0400 Received: from us01smtprelay-2.synopsys.com ([198.182.60.111]:53549 "EHLO smtprelay.synopsys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932348AbcI1Nso (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:48:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: android: fix permissions style To: Greg KH References: <20160928092840.GA16732@kroah.com> CC: Ramiro Oliveira , , , , From: Ramiro Oliveira Message-ID: <4888f21f-b855-42d8-5307-5eadd3f837d7@synopsys.com> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:48:39 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160928092840.GA16732@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.107.25.125] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 9/28/2016 10:28 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:02:28PM +0100, Ramiro Oliveira wrote: >> Change permissions from symbolic to octal. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ramiro Oliveira >> --- >> drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c | 4 ++-- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > Doesn't apply to my tree at all, are you sure you are working against > linux-next? > > thanks, > > greg k-h Hi Greg, I've checked and I'm working with linux-next from September 28. I've even cloned a fresh repository and applied my patch against it, and it didn't return any error. I'm following this man page: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html And these are the latest commits I can see in my local repository. ramiro (28-Set) ~/linux-next $ git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit -10 486aa34 Staging: android: fix permissions style d1dfecd Add linux-next specific files for 20160928 193fc13 Merge branch 'akpm/master' 0a02a3c treewide: remove redundant #include 8cac28f hung_task-allow-hung_task_panic-when-hung_task_warnings-is-0-fix 25758d2 hung_task: allow hung_task_panic when hung_task_warnings is 0 ceed084 kthread: add kerneldoc for kthread_create() 998139d scripts/tags.sh: enable code completion in VIM b6edcec mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mapping 73ac410 kdump, vmcoreinfo: report memory sections virtual addresses Can you give some pointers on what I might be doing wrong? BRs, Ramiro