Re: linux-next: manual merge of the usb-gadget tree with the usb tree

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 08:40:04AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I fixed it up with the USB version 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.

> FWIW, timer_setup() should be preferred over setup_timer().

Bah, that's unfortunate.  When more of these come up I'll do that.  It
would be better to sort these out in the relevant trees though, there's
quite a few of these conflicts and it's not super obvious if you're not
into the timer code what's preferred.

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