linux-next: manual merge of the net-next tree with the powerpc tree

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Mon Mar 12 09:56:21 EST 2012


From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 17:44:16 +1100

> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:15:34 -0800 (PST) David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
>>
>> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>
>> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:36:46 +1100
>> 
>> > Today's linux-next merge of the net-next tree got a conflict in
>> > drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/iseries_veth.c between commit e92a665949f6
>> > ("net: powerpc: remove the legacy iSeries ethernet driver") from the
>> > powerpc tree and commit 41de8d4cff21 ("drivers/net: Remove alloc_etherdev
>> > error messages") from the net-next tree.
>> > 
>> > I just removed the file.
>> 
>> If it makes life easier for anyone I can put the driver removal patch
>> into net-next.
> 
> In this case, I think it will actually help, thanks.  Note that it won;t
> apply cleanly to your tree, but the fixup is easy :-)
> 
> And I discovered that "git am" doesn't like the style of patch I did
> (without the body of the deleted file).  If you just delete
> drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/iseries_veth.c before trying to apply the patch
> it will probably work.

I took care of this the other night.


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