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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:44:55 +0200
From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
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Subject: Re: [NEW DRIVER V4 2/7] DA9058 ADC driver
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On 04/16/2013 04:22 PM, Opensource [Anthony Olech] wrote:
>> [...]
>> please always test your drivers against the latest upstream version before submitting them.
>> [...]
> 
> Hi Lars,
> 
> The driver was tested against linux mainline tag v3.9-rc6, because that was the most recent
> tagged commit in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git on the day
> that I sent in the patches.
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "latest upstream version" ?
> Did I use the correct repository ?

So, there are usually subsystem specific trees. You can usually find them in
the MAINTAINERS file. E.g. for the IIO subsystem it is
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git
The subsystem trees can be up to 3 months (one release) ahead of Linus'
tree. If in doubt place your changes ontop of the next tree, which should
have all the changes from the subsystem trees.

- Lars
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