Re: linux-next: manual merge of the nvdimm tree with the powerpc tree

From: Dan Williams
Date: Mon Jan 29 2018 - 17:50:01 EST


On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 10:04 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the nvdimm tree got a conflict in:
>
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c
>
> between commit:
>
> 1d65b1c886be ("powerpc/cell: Remove axonram driver")
>
> from the powerpc tree and commit:
>
> 785a3fab4adb ("mm, dax: introduce pfn_t_special()")
>
> from the nvdimm tree.
>
> I fixed it up (I just removed the file) 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.

Thanks Stephen, resolution looks good to me.