linux-next: manual merge of the drm-misc tree with the drm-next tree

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Tue Jul 27 11:41:30 UTC 2021


On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 1:15 PM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the drm-misc tree got a conflict in:
>
>   drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h
>
> between commit:
>
>   ebc9ac7c3dfe ("drm/vmwgfx: Update device headers")
>
> from the drm-next tree and commit:
>
>   be4f77ac6884 ("drm/vmwgfx: Cleanup fifo mmio handling")
>
> from the drm-misc tree.

I got confused for a bit how we managed a conflict here because vmwgfx
flows drm-misc.git -> drm.git -> linus. The 2nd patch is in
drm-misc-fixes, which makes sense, not in drm-misc-next like I assumed
at first drm-misc means.
-Daniel

> 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.
>
> diff --cc drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h
> index 356f82c26f59,5652d982b1ce..000000000000
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h



-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch


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