Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the staging tree

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Aug 28 2017 - 02:49:23 EST


On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 04:41:27PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the scsi tree got a conflict in:
>
> drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c
>
> between commits:
>
> 781facd05eb9 ("staging: unisys: visorhba: visorhba_main.c: fixed comment formatting issues")
>
> from the staging tree and commit:
>
> 7bc4e528d9f6 ("scsi: visorhba: sanitze private device data allocation")
>
> from the scsi 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.

Ick, messy merge, thanks for doing this.

greg k-h