Re: linux-next: manual merge of the l2-mtd tree with the kbuild-current tree

[Boris Brezillon]

Le Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:56:14 +1000,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a Ãcrit :

> Hi Brian,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the l2-mtd tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   cb87481ee89d ("kbuild: linker script do not match C names unless LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is configured")

Masahiro, according to this message [1], you queued the above patch to
your fixes branch. Do you plan to send a fixes PR to Linus before
-rc7? If that's the case I'll merge -rc7 in l2-mtd/master, otherwise
I'll need an immutable branch.

Thanks,

Boris

[1]https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg599088.html

> 
> from the kbuild-current tree and commit:
> 
>   129f6c4820dd ("mtd: only use __xipram annotation when XIP_KERNEL is set")
> 
> from the l2-mtd 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.
>