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SubjectRe: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the usb tree
+ Kevin,

On 27/08/2013 15:53, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 08/27/2013 03:24 PM, Benoit Cousson wrote:
>> Hi Sebatian,
>
> Hi Benoit,
>
>> Yes. DT patches are an endless source of merge conflicts if they are
>> merge throught different trees.
>
> Usually there are small conflicts because two people added / changed a
> node nearby. This patch turned the .dts file almost upside down.

Yes, that's true.

>> What was discussed with Olof and Arnd during Connect is that we should
>> avoid merging DT patches outside arm-soc tree to avoid that kind of
>> situation.
>
> I am aware of this now. However these changes belonged together because
> a) they belonged together and b) would break the driver until the .dts
> changes and driver code is in-sync.
> In future I am going to ask you for a topic branch so I can get my
> changes in one piece without breaking stuff in the middle.
>
> What do we do now?

Cannot you just merge the stable arm-soc/dt branch into your branch
before applying your patches?

Regards
Benoit



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