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

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Oct 06 2016 - 02:52:09 EST


On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:05:42 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Today's linux-next merge of the gpio tree got a conflict in:
>>
>> arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-peripherals.c
>>
>> between commit:
>>
>> 9b7141d01a76 ("ARM: OMAP2+: Drop legacy board file for n900")
>>
>> from the arm-soc tree and commit:
>>
>> 9132ce450bd1 ("ARM: omap2: fix missing include")
>>
>> from the gpio tree.
>>
>> I fixed it up (the former removed the file, so I did that) and can
>> carry the fix as necessary. This is now fixed as far as linux-next is
>> concerned, but any non trivial conflicts should be mentioned to your
>> upstream maintainer when your tree is submitted for merging. You may
>> also want to consider cooperating with the maintainer of the conflicting
>> tree to minimise any particularly complex conflicts.
>
> Since Linus (Torvalds) has merged the gpio tree, this conflict (and
> file removal) now affects the merge of the arm-soc tree).

Yup and I also informed him in my pull request about this conflict
so shouldn't be a problem.

Yours,
Linus Walleij