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

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Date:	Thu, 5 Jan 2012 14:45:53 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the wireless-next tree with the
 net-next tree

Hi Larry,

On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:12:29 -0600 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> wrote:
>
> On 01/04/2012 09:04 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the wireless-next tree got a conflict in
> > drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/dma.c between commit 3db1cd5c05f3 ("net:
> > fix assignment of 0/1 to bool variables") from the net-next tree and
> > commit 5d07a3d62f63 ("b43legacy: Avoid packet losses in the dma worker
> > code") from the wireless-next tree.
> >
> > Just context changes.  I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as
> > necessary.
> 
> Is there a good explanation why changes in wireless drivers are sent to 
> net-next, and not wireless-testing? If that were stopped, this kind of conflict 
> would be avoided.

In this particular case, I think Dave asked Rusty to just do a net wide
sweep - see the commit message:

commit 3db1cd5c05f35fb43eb134df6f321de4e63141f2
Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Date:   Mon Dec 19 13:56:45 2011 +0000

    net: fix assignment of 0/1 to bool variables.
    
    DaveM said:
       Please, this kind of stuff rots forever and not using bool properly
       drives me crazy.

These conflicts are trivial in any case ...
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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