Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752149AbaBZLlp (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Feb 2014 06:41:45 -0500 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:52191 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751393AbaBZLln (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Feb 2014 06:41:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 20:41:35 +0900 From: Mark Brown To: Lee Jones Cc: "Opensource [Anthony Olech]" , Samuel Ortiz , Liam Girdwood , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , David Dajun Chen Message-ID: <20140226114135.GC31120@sirena.org.uk> 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> <20140226093203.GK9195@lee--X1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NMuMz9nt05w80d4+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140226093203.GK9195@lee--X1> X-Cookie: Don't read everything you believe. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 121.174.50.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 2/3] MFD: da9052: Add new DA9053 BC chip variant X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mezzanine.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:32:03AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > > 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. Submitters should defintely at the very least be checking against the subsystem tree (since that's what they're really submitting against) - it's always annoying when someone submits code that either doesn't apply or fails to build with the current tree. --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTDdLoAAoJELSic+t+oim9PpYP/3aod/odwRyNs0ok4abD5bhX cd6DZX2ZhWuhoiU7T74MsF87R8AuDWRazh9UWsdOXfBrvi3kv8AMufQo3kxK2em/ eyeGfgNLYq87Fk6f5QdJGM2b3m7NLn+os+ttOF8/O2Z+suHBM3i1XzVOyAvS/URn prSIXet604EfzAkEYvXLc7fv/QPH6CCs/4YcmhR5mkV8lpMXmS/Wx1RT3tBb9jgb q2i6LrOY/HJRYTJtMVIqsfGfnmAUJu6T8tQ4aohUME7ca0Wxjlluqk/isAoKvW94 8gVWU33bThCCNpW25ONcxMNTjqcMzAdJeOIcf7oJkZpCB96TYqAqPyJ14RycRQuo qCv1GYUjorIgvc9pwMrarT6GsDZXUtlrt5sjuf0LNhLsWIowNBHCZJNwzAVjnsYQ 3BpN6rSsha8uKm3MQr63fC0NcR+WxLReZRF750wXLNRLW/qB6acube7QA+H52OYZ Hr+4KbaCTgW4eFzUwuHufKnkySnzMqVdPMaygaheSWNpBqeXFhoeWD/dsCakX65Z MvbyWMA4Bns2Y+dzj7Mtdza/5rKyHS6mlfUFO1W2d8tpuTpBIQzBYxHW38AvaOXM FfyXh54Qcdv9CZiSAReChjb6QwwMWdL+HPEWBPO+fpmvXOGENL/GbHO8/5npjfoR 0acgh2R/aLFeEOI9AySy =wP26 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+-- -- 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/