linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the tty tree with the powerpc-fixes tree

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Date:   Fri, 5 Mar 2021 07:30:25 +0100
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@...ine-koenig.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the tty tree with the powerpc-fixes
 tree

On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 12:05:23PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the tty tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   386a966f5ce7 ("vio: make remove callback return void")
> 
> from the powerpc-fixes tree and commit:
> 
>   fb8d350c291c ("tty: hvc, drop unneeded forward declarations")
> 
> from the tty tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (they both removed the forward decalrartion of
> hvcs_remove(), but the latter removed more) 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, that's the correct fix, we knew this was going to happen :(

greg k-h