Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the char-misc tree with the powerpc tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:12:22 +1100

Hi all,

On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 18:35:06 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the char-misc tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   drivers/misc/ocxl/Kconfig
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   dde6f18a8779 ("ocxl: Don't return trigger page when allocating an interrupt")
> 
> from the powerpc tree and commit:
> 
>   4b53a3c72116 ("ocxl: fix kconfig dependency warning for OCXL")
> 
> from the char-misc 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.
> 
> diff --cc drivers/misc/ocxl/Kconfig
> index 0d815b2a40b3,947294f6d7f4..000000000000
> --- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/Kconfig
> @@@ -9,9 -9,8 +9,9 @@@ config OCXL_BAS
>   
>   config OCXL
>   	tristate "OpenCAPI coherent accelerator support"
>  -	depends on PPC_POWERNV && PCI && EEH && HOTPLUG_PCI_POWERNV
>  +	depends on PPC_POWERNV && PCI && EEH && PPC_XIVE_NATIVE
> ++	depends on HOTPLUG_PCI_POWERNV
>   	select OCXL_BASE
> - 	select HOTPLUG_PCI_POWERNV
>   	default m
>   	help
>   	  Select this option to enable the ocxl driver for Open

This is now a conflict between the powerpc tree and Linus' tree.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell