Stephen Rothwell [off-list ref] writes:

Hi Eric,

Today's linux-next merge of the sysctl tree got a conflict in
net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c between commit
887e671f324d9898aaedb29a6ece6c853c394067 ("decnet: netdevice refcount
leak") from Linus' tree and commit
f8572d8f2a2ba75408b97dc24ef47c83671795d7 ("sysctl net: Remove unused
binary sysctl code") from the sysctl tree.

The latter removed the code (function dn_def_dev_strategy()) modified by
the former, so I just used the latter.  I can carry this fix for a while,
but it can be fixed by merging v2.6.32-rc7 (or just the
above commit from Linus' tree - which would merge a much smaller number of
commits) into the sysctl tree. 

Nice.  I had not realized that bug fix had made it into v2.6.32-rc7.
I will look at merging that to remove the conflict.

I looked at cherry-picking the commit earlier when I saw it in the netdev
tree and my experiment failed.  So I think the only resolution that works
in this case is merging it so the whole history is there.

Eric