Re: linux-next: manual merge of the omap_dss2 tree with Linus' tree

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi Tomi,

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:10:45 +0300 Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I wonder what I should do about this conflict. Both the fix in Linus'
> tree and the new code come from fbdev tree (I'm currently handling fbdev
> patches), and it feels a bit silly to have conflicts between the fixes
> and new commits from the same subsystem tree.

Since you really should have that fix in your -next branch as well (for
testing), I would merge the same branch that Linus merged i.e. I would
merge commit 090da752cdd6 ("video:uvesafb: Fix dereference NULL pointer
code path") since that is already in your tree (presumably as a separate
branch or tag).  I would also put a comment in the merge commit itself
explaining why you did it.

> I could just leave the conflict be, or I could merge the fix into the
> fbdev-next branch. Do you know if there's a rule of thumb I should
> follow here?

The normal rule is to leave it to me and Linus, but since both sides of
the conflict came your own tree, I think the above makes more sense.

[cc'd Linus for any conflicting opinion]
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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