Re: linux-next: manual merge of the staging tree with the staging.current tree
From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Feb 25 2026 - 10:10:44 EST
On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 03:04:18PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the staging tree got a conflict in:
>
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
>
> between commit:
>
> f0109b9d3e1e4 ("staging: rtl8723bs: properly validate the data in rtw_get_ie_ex()")
>
> from the staging.current tree and commit:
>
> 0c9d1b56f9af0 ("staging: rtl8723bs: fix spaces around binary operators")
>
> from the staging 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.
Sorry about this, I knew it would happen, I should have warned you.
I'll take your fixup when the -linus branch gets to Linus and I merge
that into this branch. Or I guess I could just do it now to save any
future issues, let me go do that...
thanks,
greg k-h