Re: linux-next: manual merge of the staging tree with Linus' tree

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 07:08:58PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the staging tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   drivers/staging/ncpfs/dir.c
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   1c5fedbb508f ("ncp_lookup(): use d_splice_alias()")
> 
> from Linus' tree and commit:
> 
>   bd32895c750b ("staging: ncpfs: delete it")
> 
> from the staging tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (the latter 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.

Thanks, I figured this would show up, not a problem, the file should be
just removed.

greg k-h