linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the net tree with the i2c tree

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Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:10:27 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@...ia.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the net tree with the i2c tree

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 16:02 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:22:58 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 12:42 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > Ben, you can adjust your own patches to make use of this API instead of
> > > accessing the i2c_adapter mutex directly. That way, you are no longer
> > > dependent of implementation changes, and this should solve the conflict.
> > > 
> > > Stephen, you can then drop your fixup patch.
> > 
> > I don't think so, since the conflict resulted from joining two files
> > including sfe4001.c in net-next-2.6.
> 
> My patch series no longer touches sfe4001.c, so how would the conflict
> remain?

Because your patch to introduce i2c_{lock,unlock}_adapter() are not in
net-next-2.6 yet.

David, you might want to pull from Linus and resolve this, giving
Stephen a break.

Ben.

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