Re: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the arm tree

From: Russell King
Date: Mon Oct 24 2011 - 17:17:18 EST


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:09:52PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 09:30:41PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 07:20:13AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi Arnd,
> > >
> > > Today's linux-next merge of the arm-soc tree got a conflict in
> > > arch/arm/plat-mxc/include/mach/memory.h between commit c039bad00f21
> > > ("ARM: plat-mxc: remove mach/memory.h") from the arm tree and commits
> > > ae4fa7f66e54 ("ARM i.MX: allow to compile together ARMv4 and ARMv5 based
> > > SoCs") and 7409cd1cd554 ("ARM i.MX: allow to compile together all i.MX5
> > > based SoCs") from the arm-soc tree.
> > >
> > > The former removed the file, so I did that.
> >
> > Stephen - thanks.
> >
> > ARM guys, we need to be smarter about this stuff - if we're consolidating
> > code across the ARM tree, committing changes to files which we're going
> > to remove really isn't a good idea. It probably means something else has
> > changed elsewhere to accomodate the deletion of the file, which this
> > kind of resolution won't fix up.
>
> In this case deleting the file is the correct solution. I removed some
> definitions of PLAT_PHYS_OFFSET which got unused due to "ARM i.MX: allow
> to compile together..." and Nicolas removed the need for PLAT_PHYS_OFFSET
> at all.

Ok, at least this one is trivial. Thanks for the confirmation.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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