Re: linux-next: manual merge of the amdgpu tree with the jc_docs tree

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the amdgpu tree got a conflict in:
>
>   Documentation/driver-api/index.rst
>
> between commit:
>
>   50709576d81b ("Documentation: Destage TEE subsystem documentation")
>
> from the jc_docs tree and commit:
>
>   2128f3cca5a2 ("Documentation/driver-api: Add document about WBRF mechanism")
>
> from the amdgpu 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.

Thanks, both fixups in that file seem fine.

Clearly, though, we've run into the "everybody adding stuff to the end
causes a lot of conflicts" problem.  Time to impose some better
organization onto that file.

jon