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
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:40:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140225124050.GA7571@lee--X1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140225121555.GB25940@sirena.org.uk>
> > I am. The trouble with basing your patches against -next is that it's
> > not stable, in that it is rebuilt every day. If your patches are
> > dependant on commits which haven't reached Mainline yet, then you
> > should rebase on the subsystem tree which they are contained in. All
> > patches in -next should be based on an -rc or a released kernel version.
>
> 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.
--
Lee Jones
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-25 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-19 16:32 [PATCH V1 2/3] MFD: da9052: Add new DA9053 BC chip variant Opensource [Anthony Olech]
2014-02-25 8:57 ` Lee Jones
2014-02-25 10:13 ` Opensource [Anthony Olech]
2014-02-25 11:50 ` Lee Jones
2014-02-25 12:15 ` Mark Brown
2014-02-25 12:40 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2014-02-25 23:07 ` Mark Brown
2014-02-26 9:32 ` Lee Jones
2014-02-26 11:41 ` Mark Brown
2014-02-26 11:59 ` Lee Jones
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