Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the drm-misc tree

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Jul 24 2017 - 14:33:49 EST


On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 10:24:41AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:24:49 +0200 Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> How are we going to handle this now? The refactor is deeply burried in
> >> drm-misc, I guess you could cherry-pick the relevant patches over. But
> >> that'll probably lead to more conflicts because git will get confused.
> >
> > I'll just keep applying the merge resolution patch and will remind Dave
> > and Greg about it during the week before the merge window opens so that
> > they can let Linus know that the fix up is needed.
>
> Well, Greg squeezed the vbox driver into -rc2, so now we already get
> to resolve this in a backmerge. And hopefully the bikeshed patches in
> -staging won't interfere too badly with whatever refactoring we'll do
> in drm-next.
>
> Greg, fyi this is the last time I'll ack a drm driver for staging.
> This just doesn't work. We're spending more time here working the
> -staging vs. drm-next conflicts than the actual vbox driver review has
> taken me. And probly less than the cleanup for merging directly to
> drm-next will end up taking.

Hey, I was amazed that you all acked it, and it's why I required that
you do so before I took it :)

Good luck with the merges!

greg k-h