Re: linux-next: manual merge of the wireless-drivers-next tree with the wireless-drivers tree

[Luca Coelho]

On Tue, 2020-03-24 at 09:00 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Today's linux-next merge of the wireless-drivers-next tree got a
> > conflict in:
> > 
> >   drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/drv.c
> > 
> > between commit:
> > 
> >   cf52c8a776d1 ("iwlwifi: pcie: add 0x2526/0x401* devices back to cfg detection")
> > 
> > from the wireless-drivers tree and commits:
> > 
> >   67eb556da609 ("iwlwifi: combine 9260 cfgs that only change names")
> >   d6f2134a3831 ("iwlwifi: add mac/rf types and 160MHz to the device tables")
> > 
> > from the wireless-drivers-next tree.
> > 
> > I fixed it up (I am not sure wat to do with this, so I just dropped
> > the former changes for now) 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 Stephen. Luca, how do you propose to fix this conflict?

The resolution is correct.  Just drop the cf52c8a776d1 changes, since
the list of specific subsytem device IDs are not necessary after
d6f2134a3831 anymore.  The detection is based on other characteristics
of the devices.

Thanks!

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Cheers,
Luca.