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

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Tue Nov 14 2017 - 20:25:41 EST


Em Wed, 15 Nov 2017 01:28:06 +0200
Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> Hi Stephen, Greg, others,
>
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 04:24:47PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 19:26:54 +0100 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > Today's linux-next merge of the staging tree got a conflict in:
> > >
> > > drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp2/css2400/sh_css_firmware.c
> > >
> > > between commit:
> > >
> > > 866af46e6ebbc ("media: Staging: atomisp: fix alloc_cast.cocci warnings")
> > >
> > > from the media tree and commit:
> > >
> > > 4d962df5a7771 ("atomisp2: remove cast from memory allocation")
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Just a reminder that this conflict still exists.
>
> Both patches essentially contain the same change, the difference is in the
> indentation only. There's a number of atomisp patches in the media tree,
> how about simply reverting the patch in the staging tree?

Today morning I merged the changeset from staging tree that Greg
sent to Linux (and that was already merged upstream), solving the conflict.

So, except if something else pops up, the conflict at -next will
cease to exist after it gets merged back there :-)

Regards,
Mauro