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

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Thu Aug 24 2017 - 03:45:07 EST


(Adding Dave so that he is also aware of this)

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> As expetced, today's linux-next merge of the wireless-drivers-next tree
> got a conflict in:
>
> drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-nvm-parse.c
>
> between commit:
>
> 92b0f7b26b31 ("iwlwifi: split the regulatory rules when the bandwidth flags require it")
>
> from Linus' tree and commit:
>
> b823cf3bae81 ("iwlwifi: update channel flags parser")
>
> from the wireless-drivers-next tree.
>
> I fixed it up (see below - Luca, Kalle, thanks for the heads up) 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 for the report. There were quite a few conflicts in iwlwifi so
I'm planning to merge wireless-drivers to wireless-drivers-next today so
that the conflicts are fixed before I submit them to Dave.

--
Kalle Valo