Hi Larry,
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:12:29 -0600 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 01/04/2012 09:04 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the wireless-next tree got a conflict in
> > drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/dma.c between commit 3db1cd5c05f3 ("net:
> > fix assignment of 0/1 to bool variables") from the net-next tree and
> > commit 5d07a3d62f63 ("b43legacy: Avoid packet losses in the dma worker
> > code") from the wireless-next tree.
> >
> > Just context changes. I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as
> > necessary.
>
> Is there a good explanation why changes in wireless drivers are sent to
> net-next, and not wireless-testing? If that were stopped, this kind of conflict
> would be avoided.
In this particular case, I think Dave asked Rusty to just do a net wide
sweep - see the commit message:
commit 3db1cd5c05f35fb43eb134df6f321de4e63141f2
Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Dec 19 13:56:45 2011 +0000
net: fix assignment of 0/1 to bool variables.
DaveM said:
Please, this kind of stuff rots forever and not using bool properly
drives me crazy.
These conflicts are trivial in any case ...
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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