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Date:   Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:49:25 +0200
From:   "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
To:     "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>,
        "Stephen Rothwell" <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc:     "Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>,
        "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-next <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the tty tree with the asm-generic tree
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2023, at 09:28, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 02:43:27PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Today's linux-next merge of the tty tree got conflicts in:
>> 
>>   arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
>>   drivers/firmware/pcdp.c
>> 
>> between commit:
>> 
>>   cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture")
>> 
>> from the asm-generic tree and commits:
>> 
>>   8a736ddfc861 ("vgacon: rework screen_info #ifdef checks")
>>   acfc78823326 ("vgacon: remove screen_info dependency")
>>   555624c0d10b ("vgacon: clean up global screen_info instances")
>> 
>> from the tty tree.
>> 
>> I fixed it up (I deleted the files) 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.
>
> Deleting the files are fine, thanks!

Agreed, I was aware of the conflict and considered dropping the
ia64 portion from the vgacon series, but it seemed cleaner to still
leave it in there with the trivial conflict after I had structured
it in a way that would not regress ia64 in the middle.

    Arnd