Re: linux-next: manual merge of the ia64 tree with the asm-generic tree

From: David Howells
Date: Mon Oct 08 2012 - 12:26:35 EST


Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Today's linux-next merge of the ia64 tree got a conflict in
> arch/ia64/include/asm/Kbuild between commit e7a570ff7dff ("asm-generic:
> Add default clkdev.h") from the asm-generic tree and commit f68301fee715
> ("UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/ia64/include/asm") from the ia64
> tree.
>
> I fixed it up (see below - I am not sure if this is the correct fix) and
> can carry the fix as necessary (no action is required).

It is.

"header +=" and "genhdr +=" belong in the UAPI Kbuild; "generic +=" belongs in
the original Kbuild.

In his pull request, Arnd said:

There may be a few small merge conflicts between Mark's patch and the
following arch header file split patches. In each case the solution
will be to keep the new "generic-y += clkdev.h" line, even if it ends
up being the only line in the Kbuild file.

David
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