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

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Aug 29 2017 - 02:58:14 EST


On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 04:35:13PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the tty tree got a conflict in:
>
> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_gsc.c
>
> between commit:
>
> 9e466f101e19 ("parisc/8250_gsc: Fix section mismatches")
>
> from the parisc-hd tree and commit:
>
> 0d474f7fad3b ("tty: 8250: constify parisc_device_id")
>
> from the tty tree.
>
> I fixed it up (the former is a superset of the latter) 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 letting me know about this, and the other conflict here.

greg k-h