Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the block tree

From: James Bottomley
Date: Tue Nov 08 2016 - 11:18:05 EST


On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 16:48 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the scsi tree got a conflict in:
>
> drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c
>
> between commit:
>
> e806402130c9 ("block: split out request-only flags into a new
> namespace")
>
> from the block tree and commit:
>
> 2266d5678ad1 ("scsi: ufs: fix sense buffer size to 18 bytes")
>
> from the scsi tree.
>
> I fixed it up (see below) 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 for doing this. I think this is exactly the type of easily
resolvable conflict Linus likes to fix himself, so keeping the trees
separate seems the best options.

Regards,

James