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

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Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:07:21 +0900
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.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

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:40:50PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:

> > 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. 

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.

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