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

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Sep 12 2019 - 08:31:46 EST


Hi Stephen,

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 09:55:58PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Today's linux-next merge of the arm64 tree got a conflict in:
>
> arch/arm64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
>
> between commit:
>
> 5489c8e0cf03 ("arm64: use asm-generic/dma-mapping.h")
>
> from the dma-mapping tree and commit:
>
> b907b80d7ae7 ("arm64: remove pointless __KERNEL__ guards")
>
> from the arm64 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.

Thanks. Killing the file is the right thing to do.

Will