Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:59:17 +0000
From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: "Opensource [Anthony Olech]" <anthony.olech.opensource@diasemi.com>,
        Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        David Dajun Chen <david.chen@diasemi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 2/3] MFD: da9052: Add new DA9053 BC chip variant
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> > > 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.

+1

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