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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: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:59:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140226115917.GL9195@lee--X1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140226114135.GC31120@sirena.org.uk>

> > > 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

-- 
Lee Jones
Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead
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      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-26 11:59 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
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 [this message]

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