netdev - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the char-misc tree with the net-next tree

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Message-ID: <20181220063225.GA2294@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Dec 2018 07:32:25 +0100
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the char-misc tree with the net-next
 tree

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 05:02:53PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the char-misc tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   aea0a897af9e ("ptp: Fix pass zero to ERR_PTR() in ptp_clock_register")
> 
> from the net-next tree and commit:
> 
>   b9d93594c767 ("ptp: fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL check")
> 
> from the char-misc tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (I just used the latter version) 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 for the merge fix, that is correct.

greg k-h