Re: pull request: wireless-next 2014-08-01

From: John W. Linville
Date: Mon Aug 04 2014 - 11:00:19 EST


On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 10:37:16AM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> >> Please pull this last(?) batch of wireless change intended for the
> >> 3.17 stream...
> >
> > When I pull this I get tons of conflicts for:
> >
> > CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in net/6lowpan/iphc.c
> >
> > I don't feel comfortable fixing these up, where are they coming
> > from?
>
> I was short on time yesterday, but now I checked up on this in detail. The merge conflicts are actually simple to resolve. You can just rely on John's tree to have the more recent net/6lowpan/ tree. I should have insisted on merging net/6lowpan/ through bluetooth-next and wireless-next way earlier to avoid conflicts.
>
> In the future we will avoid this by ensuring that all goes via bluetooth-next first. Sorry for this confusion. John mentioned these merge conflicts in his footnote.
>
> John, do you just want to resolve the merge conflicts and send Dave a new pull request?

I'm happy to do that, if Dave wants. But as you say, once the initial
shock of all those conflicts passes the resolution really is fairly
simple. :-)

John
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