Re: linux-next: manual merge of the tty tree with the jc_docs tree

[Jiri Slaby]

On 11/08/2016, 11:15 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 04:30:13PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Today's linux-next merge of the tty tree got a conflict in:
>>
>>   Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt
>>
>> between commits:
>>
>>   27641b953c54 ("Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt: convert to ReST markup")
>>   9d85025b0418 ("docs-rst: create an user's manual book")
>>
>> from the jc_docs tree and commit:
>>
>>   b9c8b7fc252c ("vgacon: remove prehistoric macros")
>>
>> from the tty tree.
>>
>> I fixed it up (I deleted it - since 9d85025b0418 moved it - but that
>> means it may need fixing up in its new location to match any relevant
>> changes in b9c8b7fc252c) 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, I'll work on sending a documentation patch after 4.10-rc1 to fix
> this up.

I have the change in my tree already:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jirislaby/linux.git/commit/?h=devel&id=c4321f11b3ea88fc1c756a087869c09e89f2d299

If you want me to send that as a separate patch (or any other action),
please let me know.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs