On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 11:44:43AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au> writes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the powerpc tree got a conflict in:
> >
> > arch/Kconfig
> >
> > between commit:
> >
> > 5cf896fb6be3 ("arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel with RELR
> > relocations")
> >
> > from the arm64 tree and commit:
> >
> > 0c9c1d563975 ("x86, s390: Move ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT definition to
> > arch/Kconfig")
> >
> > from the powerpc tree.
> >
> > I fixed it up (see below) 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.
>
> That conflict seems entirely trivial, but Catalin/Will if it bothers you
> I have the conflicting commit in a topic branch based on rc2 which you
> could merge to resolve it:
It's a trivial conflict, easy to resolve. I don't think it's worth
trying to avoid it (Linus normally doesn't mind such conflicts).
--
Catalin
