Re: Advice on usb-next pull

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 01:42:40PM -0800, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I've got a potential pull request to send you for usb-next, but I wanted
> to get your advice on it first.  It contains a series of patches from
> Xenia to remove the xhci_readl/writel variants in order to just replace
> them with standard readl and writel calls.
> 
> Normally I would queue these for usb-next.  However, any bug fix patch
> that will be queued for usb-linus that touches code around xHCI register
> reads or writes is going to cause merge conflicts in usb-next.

And what's the odds of that really happening?

> The register manipulation is scattered all through the driver, so it's
> pretty likely we will get a merge conflict sometime in 3.13.  How do
> you want me to handle any merge conflicts, or will you handle them?

I can handle them.  If they are too tough, I'll ask for help :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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