RE: linux-next: manual merge of the char-misc tree with the char-misc.current tree

[Dexuan Cui]

> From: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, December 3, 2018 11:43 PM
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 03:35:13PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the char-misc tree got a conflict in:
> >
> >   drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
> >
> > between commit:
> >
> >   37c2578c0c40 ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Offload the handling of channels to
> two workqueues")
> >
> > from the char-misc.current tree and commit:
> >
> >   4d3c5c69191f ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Remove the useless API
> vmbus_get_outgoing_channel()")
> >
> > from the char-misc tree.
> >
> > I fixed it up (I used the former version where they conflicted) and can
> > carry the fix as necessary. This is now fixed as far as linux-next is
Hi Stephen, 
Thank you! I can confirm your rebase for next-20181204 is correct:
37c2578c0c40 ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Offload the handling of channels to two workqueues")

> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, this is a mess, I'll wait for the hyper-v developers to send me a
> fixup patch for handling this merge issue, as they know it is happening
> :(
> 
> greg k-h

Since Stephen has fixed the merge issue correctly, I guess I may not need to send a fixup
patch for linux-next.git. If I didn't get it right, please let me know which tree/branch I
should work on to send a fixup patch.

It looks the conflict here happened because the two related patches, which modify
the same functions, went into different branches of char-misc.git. I didn't realize this
could happen... Sorry. The lesson I learnt is that I should not submit an urgent fix
with an unimportant clean-up patch at the same time, when they can cause a conflict.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan