Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751960AbaBZJcO (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Feb 2014 04:32:14 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com ([209.85.212.181]:33968 "EHLO mail-wi0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750724AbaBZJcK (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Feb 2014 04:32:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:32:03 +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: <20140226093203.GK9195@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> <20140225124050.GA7571@lee--X1> <20140225230721.GA2927@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20140225230721.GA2927@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 > > > 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. > > It can be worth doing anyway with a subsystem that's actively developed > since sometimees the dependencies are the other way - the APIs in Linus' > tree may have gone away. Then what happens if the tree that your patch finally gets sucked into is pulled before the one you've written your code against? I'd say basing your code on -next is generally a bad idea. -- 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/