Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sound-asoc tree with the sound-current tree

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Mon Nov 29 2021 - 09:45:21 EST


On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:29:36 +0100,
Kai Vehmanen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 10:23:07AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >
> > > Mark, could you resolve in the latter branch?
> >
> > I'll just leave them for now, Linus got angry about merging up fixes
> > just to resolve conflicts so if it's not an actual dependency...
>
> the asoc for-5.17 branch does have all the needed changes and the
> linux-next merged version seems ok. We've already sent many further
> changes that touch this area of code to asoc for-5.17. Let me know if some
> actions are needed to help.

The question is rather whether this discrepancy would cause a problem
for further developments. If back-merging 5.16 stuff makes things
easier, it should be done so. OTOH, if it's just for resolving the
conflict in the final tree, we can leave it.


thanks,

Takashi