Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the staging tree with the staging.current tree

From: Jonathan Cameron <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 09:14:58 +0100

On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 13:02:12 +1000
Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the staging tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   20ea39ef9f2f ("iio: Fix scan mask selection")
> 
> from the staging.current tree and commit:
> 
>   3862828a903d ("iio: buffer: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()")
> 
> from the staging tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (I just used the staging tree version) 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,

That is the correct resolution.

Jonathan