Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the trivial tree with the net tree

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:26:45 -0800 (PST)

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:37:47 +1100

> Today's linux-next merge of the trivial tree got a conflict in
> drivers/net/sfc/mcdi_pcol.h between commit
> 5297a98d5dd6de86fe1e2ffc9ea60cdf59b71443 ("sfc: Update MCDI protocol
> definitions") from the net tree and commit
> 4887b438e6880c73c4b44d868211e70c1f3deaec ("Fix misspelling of
> "successful" and variants in comments") from the trivial tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary.

Ugh, this is the second spelling fix that's hit a conflict
in the same exact tree.

Please, submit these things to the subsystem maintainers instead
of keeping them together in a totally seperate tree.  That way
we won't have to keep fighting these things.

Thanks.