Re: [GIT PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.15

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:38:05PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > Here are a lot of driver core patches for 2.6.15.  They have all been in
> > the past few -mm releases with no problems.
> 
> Strange, because it doesn't merge with your other own changes. It might be 
> an ordering thing (ie they might have merged fine in another order). Or 
> maybe it's just because the -mm scripts will force-apply patches (or drop 
> them).
> 
> Anyway, there were clashes in drivers/usb/core/usb.c with the patch "USB: 
> fix usb_find_interface for ppc64" that came through your USB changes, and 
> that gets a merge error with the uevent/hotplug thing.
> 
> I can do the trivial manual fixup, but when I do, I have two copies of 
> "usb_match_id()": one in drivers/usb/core/driver.c and one in 
> drivers/usb/core/usb.c.
> 
> I've pushed out my tree, so that you can see for yourself (it seems to 
> have mirrored out too).

Yeah, I was wondering how that would merge together, I'll take a look at
the tree after dinner and fix up the problem (there should only be one
copy of that function.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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