linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the staging tree

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2012 06:10:21 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@...osoft.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the staging
 tree

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 01:03:34PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2012, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:54:15AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 16 May 2012, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > > Today's linux-next merge of the arm-soc tree got a conflict in
> > > > arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9g20.dtsi between commit 7cb2e629a240 ("ARM:
> > > > AT91: Add ADC driver to the at91sam9g20 dtsi") from the staging tree and
> > > > commit 5b6089cb6f28 ("ARM: at91: add at91sam9260 DT support") from the
> > > > arm-soc tree.
> > > > 
> > > > So, I didn't know what to do with this, so I used the arm-soc version of
> > > > this file (effectively throwing away the staging tree change).  Hints,
> > > > anyone?
> > > 
> > > I suspect the addition of the adc node should just go into the
> > > at91sam9260.dtsi file.
> > 
> > So does that mean that the staging tree version is correct?  Or that
> > someone needs to send me a fixup patch here?
> 
> The staging tree version adds contents to at91sam9g20.dtsi, and the context
> gets moved to at91sam9260.dtsi in arm-soc. If we want to resolve it now,
> I think the best way is to add the change to at91sam9260.dtsi in arm-soc
> and let you drop that part in staging. There are no hard dependencies
> since this is new code and it the driver is still correct without the
> change, it simply won't find the device.

Ok, so if we leave it as-is for now, we can resolve it after 3.5-rc1 is
out and we see what branch ended up "winning"?  :)

greg k-h
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