[GIT PULL] uprobes: Add uprobes support for ARM

[David Long]

On 03/17/14 19:52, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:36:09PM -0400, David Long wrote:
>>    git://git.linaro.org/people/dave.long/linux.git uprobes-v7
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to e55c35236b8adf79453a998506ec6081833b9484:
>>
>>    ARM: add uprobes support (2014-03-11 11:40:29 -0400)
>
> I pulled this a week ago into my devel-testing (which is unpublished),
> and while it hasn't shown any signs of functional problems, I was just
> about to merge it into devel-stable when I noticed the history.
>
> This is based upon:
>
> Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6
> + Linux 3.11
> + Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
> + Linux 3.12-rc5
> + Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
> + Linux 3.13-rc3
> + Linux 3.13-rc4
> + Linux 3.13-rc8
> + Linux 3.14-rc2
> + Linux 3.14-rc4
> + Linux 3.14-rc5
> |
> [your uprobes patches]
>
> where each + is a merge of the named commit into the previous.  This is
> the kind of thing which will make Linus quite unhappy: please base
> patches off a plain -rc release, not off a merge commit.
>
> I'm sure there's others on the mailing list who can guide you on this
> point, but I do need to ask you to re-spin without those merges.  I'm
> happy to take a respin of it provided it's based on 3.14-rc5 (so I can
> more easily confirm that there aren't any changes which I haven't
> already tested.)

OK, I consulted with a couple coworkers and the fix for this was 
particularly easy.  The respun branch is in place now.  Same repo, same 
branch name, based on v3.14-rc5.  Sorry for the newbie mistake.

I'm assuming a new git-pull request is not required (until I hear 
otherwise).

> Thanks, and sorry about the lateness of this email.
>

I'm just back Monday night from a few days vacation, so your timing was 
perfect for me.

-dl