linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the usb tree

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy at linutronix.de
Tue Aug 27 09:53:29 EDT 2013


On 08/27/2013 03:24 PM, Benoit Cousson wrote:
> Hi Sebatian,

Hi Benoit,

> Yes. DT patches are an endless source of merge conflicts if they are
> merge throught different trees.

Usually there are small conflicts because two people added / changed a
node nearby. This patch turned the .dts file almost upside down.

> What was discussed with Olof and Arnd during Connect is that we should
> avoid merging DT patches outside arm-soc tree to avoid that kind of
> situation.

I am aware of this now. However these changes belonged together because
a) they belonged together and b) would break the driver until the .dts
changes and driver code is in-sync.
In future I am going to ask you for a topic branch so I can get my
changes in one piece without breaking stuff in the middle.

What do we do now?

> Regards,
> Benoit

Sebastian



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