Where to base my patches on?

Where to base my patches on?

[Matthias Beyer]

Hi,

quick question:

Greg K-H said[0] that drivers/staging/*/TODO help is appreciated, and
that's where I want to start from. I already submitted patches, based
on Linus Torvalds master, but I guess this is not really how to do
it?

So where to base my patches on? I just fetched the branches from Greg
K-H, but there are several... should I base my patches upon his master
branch from his staging repository on kernel.org[1] or somewhere else?

[0]: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2014-April/010391.html
[1]: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/

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Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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Where to base my patches on?

[Greg KH]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 06:31:15PM +0200, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> quick question:
> 
> Greg K-H said[0] that drivers/staging/*/TODO help is appreciated, and
> that's where I want to start from. I already submitted patches, based
> on Linus Torvalds master, but I guess this is not really how to do
> it?
> 
> So where to base my patches on? I just fetched the branches from Greg
> K-H, but there are several... should I base my patches upon his master
> branch from his staging repository on kernel.org[1] or somewhere else?

It depends on what code you want to modify.  If you are working on
staging stuff, work off of my staging-next branch in the staging.git
tree.  Or you can work off of linux-next, that will have that branch
included in it.

If you have any questions about this, just let me know.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h

Where to base my patches on?

[Matthias Beyer]

Hi,

thanks, this helps a lot. I'm doing checkpatch.pl cleanup patches for
the staging stuff.

Besides, I received this mail about 10 times. Maybe something went
wrong somewhere?

On 18-05-2014 10:09:11, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 06:31:15PM +0200, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > quick question:
> > 
> > Greg K-H said[0] that drivers/staging/*/TODO help is appreciated, and
> > that's where I want to start from. I already submitted patches, based
> > on Linus Torvalds master, but I guess this is not really how to do
> > it?
> > 
> > So where to base my patches on? I just fetched the branches from Greg
> > K-H, but there are several... should I base my patches upon his master
> > branch from his staging repository on kernel.org[1] or somewhere else?
> 
> It depends on what code you want to modify.  If you are working on
> staging stuff, work off of my staging-next branch in the staging.git
> tree.  Or you can work off of linux-next, that will have that branch
> included in it.
> 
> If you have any questions about this, just let me know.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> greg k-h

-- 
Mit freundlichen Gr??en,
Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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Where to base my patches on?

[Greg KH]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 07:20:03PM +0200, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> 
> Besides, I received this mail about 10 times. Maybe something went
> wrong somewhere?

The joys of sending email over a cell phone while on a ferry in the
middle of the puget sound, sorry about that.

greg k-h

Where to base my patches on?

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Sun, 18 May 2014 11:20:39 -0700, Greg KH said:
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 07:20:03PM +0200, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> >
> > Besides, I received this mail about 10 times. Maybe something went
> > wrong somewhere?
>
> The joys of sending email over a cell phone while on a ferry in the
> middle of the puget sound, sorry about that.

It's amazing how long the problem has been understood...

1047 Duplicate messages and SMTP. C. Partridge. February 1988.
     (Format: TXT=5888 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)

and how little real progress has been made in fixing it in the quarter-century
since....
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