Luca Coelho <luca@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, 2020-03-24 at 09:00 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > Today's linux-next merge of the wireless-drivers-next tree got a
>> > conflict in:
>> >
>> > drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/drv.c
>> >
>> > between commit:
>> >
>> > cf52c8a776d1 ("iwlwifi: pcie: add 0x2526/0x401* devices back to cfg detection")
>> >
>> > from the wireless-drivers tree and commits:
>> >
>> > 67eb556da609 ("iwlwifi: combine 9260 cfgs that only change names")
>> > d6f2134a3831 ("iwlwifi: add mac/rf types and 160MHz to the device tables")
>> >
>> > from the wireless-drivers-next tree.
>> >
>> > I fixed it up (I am not sure wat to do with this, so I just dropped
>> > the former changes for now) 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.
>>
>> Thanks Stephen. Luca, how do you propose to fix this conflict?
>
> The resolution is correct. Just drop the cf52c8a776d1 changes, since
> the list of specific subsytem device IDs are not necessary after
> d6f2134a3831 anymore. The detection is based on other characteristics
> of the devices.
Thanks, I'll mention this in my pull request to Dave.
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