Re: linux-next: manual merge of the staging tree with the arm-soc tree

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 08:51:37AM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 05:09:44PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> Today's linux-next merge of the staging tree got a conflict in
> >> arch/arm/boot/dts/imx53-qsb.dts between commit d5eb195f26fa ("ARM: dts:
> >> i.MX53: move common QSB nodes to new file") from the arm-soc tree and
> >> commit 17b5001b5143 ("imx-drm: convert to componentised device support")
> >> from the staging tree.
> >>
> >> I fixed it up (see at bottom) and can carry the fix as necessary (no
> >> action is required).  I also added the following fix up patch:
> >
> > I think it's right, but I really have no idea about any of these.  I'll
> > defer to Russell to ensure they are correct.
> 
> We normally merge all dts changes through arm-soc to avoid these kind
> of conflicts. Since your tree is a stable one there isn't much to do
> about it, but I'd appreciate it if we just got those parts of the
> patch series in the future to avoid these situations. We've been bit
> by it before.

I can revert these patches, but for some reason Russell said they should
go through this one, so I took them...

Russell, thoughts?

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