Re: linux-next: manual merge of the rcu tree with the jc_docs tree

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Sep 03 2020 - 13:02:52 EST


On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 02:31:01PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the rcu tree got a conflict in:
>
> Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
>
> between commit:
>
> 537f3a7cf48e ("docs/memory-barriers.txt: Fix references for DMA*.txt files")
>
> from the jc_docs tree and commit:
>
> 6f6705147bab ("docs: fix references for DMA*.txt files")
>
> from the rcu tree.
>
> I fixed it up (they are preety much the same - I used the former) 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.

I removed my copy, and if testing goes well, it should get to you in a
few hours.

Thanx, Paul