Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the drm tree with Linus' tree

From: Joonas Lahtinen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 09:52:16 +0300

Quoting Stephen Rothwell (2021-10-29 03:48:40)
> Hi all,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the drm tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_trace.h
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   9a4aa3a2f160 ("drm/i915: Revert 'guc_id' from i915_request tracepoint")
> 
> from Linus' tree and commit:
> 
>   3cb3e3434b9f ("drm/i915/guc: Move fields protected by guc->contexts_lock into sub structure")
> 
> from the drm tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (I used the former version) and can carry the fix as
> necessary.

The resolution for the conflict is to drop the guc_id field completely
in linux-next.

Regards, Joonas

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell