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

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jul 19 2012 - 19:55:20 EST


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:53:01PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the staging tree got a conflict in
> drivers/staging/Kconfig between commit d0146d396bfa ("tcm_vhost: Initial
> merge for vhost level target fabric driver") from the target-merge tree
> and commit 15a4bc17b7f4 ("Staging: add CSR Wifi "os helper" module") from
> the staging tree.
>
> Just context changes. I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as
> necessary.
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> diff --cc drivers/staging/Kconfig
> index 67ec9fe,e3402d5..0000000
> --- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
> @@@ -132,6 -132,8 +132,10 @@@ source "drivers/staging/ipack/Kconfig
>
> source "drivers/staging/gdm72xx/Kconfig"
>
> + source "drivers/staging/csr/Kconfig"
> +
> + source "drivers/staging/omap-thermal/Kconfig"
> +
> +source "drivers/vhost/Kconfig.tcm"

Why is someone putting a non drivers/staging/ Kconfig file here in
drivers/staging/Kconfig? That's not ok at all.

Target people, please just depend on CONFIG_STAGING if you want to do
that, but don't mess with files in the drivers/staging/ directory for no
good reason at all.

thanks,

greg k-h
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