Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi-mkp tree with the efi-lock-down tree

From: James Morris
Date: Sun Apr 08 2018 - 22:52:09 EST


On Mon, 9 Apr 2018, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 09:22:16 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:34:12 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Today's linux-next merge of the scsi-mkp tree got a conflict in:
> > >
> > > drivers/scsi/eata.c
> > >
> > > between commit:
> > >
> > > 5b76b160badb ("scsi: Lock down the eata driver")
> > >
> > > from the efi-lock-down tree and commit:
> > >
> > > 6b1745caa14a ("scsi: eata: eata-pio: Deprecate legacy EATA drivers")
> > >
> > > from the scsi-mkp tree.
> > >
> > > I fixed it up (I just removed the file) 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.
> >
> > This is now a conflict between the efi-lock-down tree and Linus' tree.
>
> This is now a conflict between the security tree and Linus' tree.

That's odd, my next-general branch is merged to Linus.

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James Morris
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