Re: linux-next: manual merge of the powerpc tree with the arm64 tree

[Michael Ellerman]

Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 11:44:43AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Today's linux-next merge of the powerpc tree got a conflict in:
>> >
>> >   arch/Kconfig
>> >
>> > between commit:
>> >
>> >   5cf896fb6be3 ("arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel with RELR relocations")
>> >
>> > from the arm64 tree and commit:
>> >
>> >   0c9c1d563975 ("x86, s390: Move ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT definition to arch/Kconfig")
>> >
>> > from the powerpc 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.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> That conflict seems entirely trivial, but Catalin/Will if it bothers you
>> I have the conflicting commit in a topic branch based on rc2 which you
>> could merge to resolve it:
>
> It's a trivial conflict, easy to resolve. I don't think it's worth
> trying to avoid it (Linus normally doesn't mind such conflicts).

Yep, I agree.

cheers