Re: Advice on usb-next pull

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 01:51:05PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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 :)

Ok, thanks!

Sarah Sharp
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