Re: [PATCH] HID: hid-gfrm: avoid warning for input_configured API change

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Thu Nov 05 2015 - 13:23:19 EST


On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 10:32:24AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> > > > The input_configured callback was recently changed to return
> > > > an 'int', but the newly added driver uses the old API:
> > > >
> > > > drivers/hid/hid-gfrm.c:151:22: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
> > > >
> > > > This changes the driver like the other ones.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Petri Gynther <pgynther@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hmm, the question is how to merge this, given that one change is in
> > Jiri's tree and another in mine...
>
> In this case probably the best course of action is you cherry-picking
> b2c68a2f1bab from my tree into yours, and proceeding further. git can
> handle doubled commits (that will end up in Linus' tree eventually)
> easily.
>
> Another option would be to create a joint merge tree that'd contain both
> branches merged together and proceed further from that, but I don't think
> it's worth the hassle for simple case like this.
>
> Works for you?

I went the cherry-pick route.

Thanks.

--
Dmitry
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