Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the tip tree

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jan 20 2017 - 01:45:04 EST



* Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the scsi tree got a conflict in:
>
> drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
>
> between commit:
>
> e963b7088dac ("scsi: mpt3sas: Fix hang on ata passthru commands")
>
> from the tip tree and commit:
>
> ffb584565894 ("scsi: mpt3sas: fix hang on ata passthrough commands")
>
> from the scsi tree.
>
> I fixed it up (slightly different versions of the same patch - I used
> the latter version) 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.

I only had that patch for testing and it went into the -next branch by accident -
I have removed it so the conflict should be gone next time -next is integrated.

Thanks,

Ingo