Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:59:17 +0000 | From | Lee Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V1 2/3] MFD: da9052: Add new DA9053 BC chip variant |
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> > > 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
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