Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the hwmon-staging tree with the i2c tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:30:18 +1100

Hi all,

On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 09:07:24 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the hwmon-staging tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   MAINTAINERS
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   e8444bb9fd77 ("MAINTAINERS: Add HPE GXP I2C Support")
> 
> from the i2c tree and commit:
> 
>   d5f80ff774d1 ("MAINTAINERS: add gxp fan controller and documents")
> 
> from the hwmon-staging 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.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell
> 
> diff --cc MAINTAINERS
> index a58c22a7adc8,98e16168d6e9..000000000000
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@@ -2232,15 -2280,16 +2232,18 @@@ ARM/HPE GXP ARCHITECTUR
>   M:	Jean-Marie Verdun <[email-masked]>
>   M:	Nick Hawkins <[email-masked]>
>   S:	Maintained
> + F:	Documentation/hwmon/gxp-fan-ctrl.rst
>   F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/hpe,gxp.yaml
> + F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/hpe,gxp-fan-ctrl.yaml
>  +F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/hpe,gxp-i2c.yaml
>   F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/hpe,gxp-spifi.yaml
>   F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/hpe,gxp-timer.yaml
>   F:	arch/arm/boot/dts/hpe-bmc*
>   F:	arch/arm/boot/dts/hpe-gxp*
>   F:	arch/arm/mach-hpe/
>   F:	drivers/clocksource/timer-gxp.c
> + F:	drivers/hwmon/gxp-fan-ctrl.c
>  +F:	drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-gxp.c
>   F:	drivers/spi/spi-gxp.c
>   F:	drivers/watchdog/gxp-wdt.c
>   

This is now a conflict between the i2c tree and Linus' tree.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell