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

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Message-ID: <87ilxh5yph.fsf@codeaurora.org>
Date:   Thu, 28 Oct 2021 11:40:42 +0300
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
        Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@...el.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kspp tree with the wireless-drivers-next tree

(adding Jakub and Dave so that they are aware of this)

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the kspp tree got a conflict in:
>
>   drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/api/tx.h
>
> between commit:
>
>   dc52fac37c87 ("iwlwifi: mvm: Support new TX_RSP and COMPRESSED_BA_RES versions")
>
> from the wireless-drivers-next tree and commit:
>
>   fa7845cfd53f ("treewide: Replace open-coded flex arrays in unions")
>
> from the kspp 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.

I don't know what kspp tree is and either I don't know why they didn't
submit the patch to wireless-drivers-next, so I assume they will handle
the conflict as well. But I really prefer that they would submit patches
to wireless-drivers-next instead to avoid unnecessary conflicts like
this.

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches