Re: linux-next: manual merge of the devicetree tree with the pci tree

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Jul 28 2020 - 11:21:00 EST


On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 2:28 AM Sivaprakash Murugesan
<sivaprak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/28/2020 11:19 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the devicetree tree got a conflict in:
> >
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/qcom,pcie.txt
> >
> > between commits:
> >
> > 736ae5c91712 ("dt-bindings: PCI: qcom: Add missing clks")
> > b11b8cc161de ("dt-bindings: PCI: qcom: Add ext reset")
> > d511580ea9c2 ("dt-bindings: PCI: qcom: Add ipq8064 rev 2 variant")
> >
> > from the pci tree and commit:
> >
> > 70172d196947 ("dt-bindings: pci: convert QCOM pci bindings to YAML")
> >
> > from the devicetree tree.
> >
> > I don;t know how to fixed it up so I just left the latter one . 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.
>
> Rob/Bjorn,
>
> Please let me know if I can provide a patch rebased to linux-next.

A patch based on linux-next is useless unless you want it applied
after the next merge window because no one can apply it.

> Bjorn can pick up the patch after review and Rob can drop the old pci
> yaml conversion patch.

I'll drop it and it can go via the PCI tree. I have some minor fixups
I'll comment on.

Rob