Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753177AbaBYMk6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:40:58 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:43271 "EHLO mail-wg0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751463AbaBYMk5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:40:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:40:50 +0000 From: Lee Jones To: Mark Brown Cc: "Opensource [Anthony Olech]" , Samuel Ortiz , Liam Girdwood , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , David Dajun Chen Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 2/3] MFD: da9052: Add new DA9053 BC chip variant Message-ID: <20140225124050.GA7571@lee--X1> References: <201402191637.s1JGb45N017694@swsrvapps-02.lan> <20140225085701.GD19099@lee--X1> <24DF37198A1E704D9811D8F72B87EB51BCFDB5D2@NB-EX-MBX02.diasemi.com> <20140225115036.GF13246@lee--X1> <20140225121555.GB25940@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20140225121555.GB25940@sirena.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > I am. The trouble with basing your patches against -next is that it's > > not stable, in that it is rebuilt every day. If your patches are > > dependant on commits which haven't reached Mainline yet, then you > > should rebase on the subsystem tree which they are contained in. All > > patches in -next should be based on an -rc or a released kernel version. > > The advice here is usually that sending against -next is a good proxy > for sending against the individual tree without having to figure out all > the different trees - almost all of the time the effect is the same. > This only applies when sending patches via e-mail, for git pulls it's an > absolute no of course. Good point. But it's worth reiterating that this should only be done if you have dependencies which haven't yet reached Mainline. -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/