linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V1 2/3] MFD: da9052: Add new DA9053 BC chip variant

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Message-ID: <20140225124050.GA7571@lee--X1>
Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:40:50 +0000
From:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	"Opensource [Anthony Olech]" <anthony.olech.opensource@...semi.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Dajun Chen <david.chen@...semi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 2/3] MFD: da9052: Add new DA9053 BC chip variant

> > 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. 

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