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

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Feb 14 2020 - 15:02:18 EST


On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 10:55:19AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the staging tree got a conflict in:
>
> MAINTAINERS
>
> between commit:
>
> 95ba79e89c10 ("MAINTAINERS: remove unnecessary ':' characters")
>
> from the char-misc.current tree and commit:
>
> caa6772db4c1 ("Staging: remove wusbcore and UWB from the kernel tree.")
>
> from the staging tree.
>
> I fixed it up (see below) 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.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell
>
> diff --cc MAINTAINERS
> index a9a93de6223c,9a4c715d1e50..000000000000
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@@ -17118,12 -17089,7 +17113,7 @@@ S: Maintaine
> F: drivers/usb/common/ulpi.c
> F: include/linux/ulpi/
>
> - ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) SUBSYSTEM
> - L: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> - S: Obsolete
> - F: drivers/staging/uwb/
> -
> -UNICODE SUBSYSTEM:
> +UNICODE SUBSYSTEM
> M: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> L: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> S: Supported

Thanks for this, I'll handle the merge issue when one of the branches
gets to Linus in a day or so.

greg k-h