Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the extcon tree with the usb tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2022 11:18:40 +1000

Hi all,

On Mon, 23 May 2022 18:42:54 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:27:39 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the extcon tree got a conflict in:
> > 
> >   drivers/usb/dwc3/drd.c
> > 
> > between commit:
> > 
> >   0f0101719138 ("usb: dwc3: Don't switch OTG -> peripheral if extcon is present")
> > 
> > from the usb tree and commit:
> > 
> >   88490c7f43c4 ("extcon: Fix extcon_get_extcon_dev() error handling")  
> 
> This is now commit
> 
>   58e4a2d27d32 ("extcon: Fix extcon_get_extcon_dev() error handling")
> 
> > from the extcon tree.
> > 
> > I fixed it up (the former moved the code modified by the latter, so I
> > used the former version of this files and added the following merge fix
> > patch) 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.
> > 
> > From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:24:04 +1000
> > Subject: [PATCH] fixup for "usb: dwc3: Don't switch OTG -> peripheral if extcon is present"
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c | 9 ++-------
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c b/drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c
> > index 2345a54b848b..950e238c65bf 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c
> > @@ -1649,13 +1649,8 @@ static struct extcon_dev *dwc3_get_extcon(struct dwc3 *dwc)
> >  	 * This device property is for kernel internal use only and
> >  	 * is expected to be set by the glue code.
> >  	 */
> > -	if (device_property_read_string(dev, "linux,extcon-name", &name) == 0) {
> > -		edev = extcon_get_extcon_dev(name);
> > -		if (!edev)
> > -			return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
> > -
> > -		return edev;
> > -	}
> > +	if (device_property_read_string(dev, "linux,extcon-name", &name) == 0)
> > +		return extcon_get_extcon_dev(name);
> >  
> >  	/*
> >  	 * Try to get an extcon device from the USB PHY controller's "port"
> > -- 
> > 2.35.1  
> 
> This is now a conflict between the char-misc tree and the usb tree.

This merge resolution seems to have been lost somewhere along the way
:-(

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell