Re: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: android: ion: Remove explicit NULL comparison using Coccinelle

[Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2016-10-02 at 17:37 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 08:51:29PM +0530, Shyam Saini wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2016-10-02 at 16:58 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 08:58:51PM +0530, shyam saini wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Remove the explicit NULL comparison and rewrite in a compact
> > > > form.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: shyam saini <mayhs11saini@gmail.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_of.c | 2 +-
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > Does not apply to my tree :(
> > 
> > Do I need to rebase it? Because I have already included all the
> > maintainers in the patch which I got from
> >  scripts/get_maintainer.pl.
> If you want it applied, yes, you need to rebase it.  Listing the
> maintainers doesn't help the patch to somehow magically be able to be
> applied to the tree :)
> 
> Please work against my staging-testing branch of the staging.git
> tree,
> as it has a lot of patches I just accepted in it that are not yet in
> linux-next.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h


>From now onward I will be working on your staging-testing tree. 

But then why some of my patches which were based on linux-next were
accepted?

for example today You've accepted 
my patch "Staging: vt6655: Remove explicit NULL comparison using
Coccinelle"

with commit id  4d932504b534584e116b400dd6e7b8ce7deb455c, 

which you can check on 
 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git

This patch was based on linux-next tree.

Please clear my confusion.

Thanks,
Shyam