On Mon, Oct 23, 2023, at 09:28, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 02:43:27PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Today's linux-next merge of the tty tree got conflicts in:
>>
>> arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
>> drivers/firmware/pcdp.c
>>
>> between commit:
>>
>> cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture")
>>
>> from the asm-generic tree and commits:
>>
>> 8a736ddfc861 ("vgacon: rework screen_info #ifdef checks")
>> acfc78823326 ("vgacon: remove screen_info dependency")
>> 555624c0d10b ("vgacon: clean up global screen_info instances")
>>
>> from the tty tree.
>>
>> I fixed it up (I deleted the files) 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.
>
> Deleting the files are fine, thanks!
Agreed, I was aware of the conflict and considered dropping the
ia64 portion from the vgacon series, but it seemed cleaner to still
leave it in there with the trivial conflict after I had structured
it in a way that would not regress ia64 in the middle.
Arnd
