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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Support for Avago APDS9306 Ambient Light Sensor
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>> Can you also help me out with the git tree I should use to format the
>> patches? As per my understanding it is the subsystem maintainer tree
>> and the main branch but the macros and functions which you have suggested
>> in other reviews are available in Linux mainline.
>
> For a new driver it rarely matters and I'd advise simply using
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> which is the mainline tree. Please base either on the previous
> release (currently 6.2) or rc1 of the current release (v6.3-rc1)
> if doing this.
>
> If you need a feature that has only been applied in the same cycle, or
> are building on recent work that has been applied to the iio tree then
> for fixes you want:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git fixes-togreg
> for new stuff you want:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git togreg
>
> The IIO tree routes through Greg KH's char-misc tree so will see the togreg
> branch move forwards to be based on that as Greg takes pull requests from me.
> Usually this happens once or twice a kernel cycle. Don't worry too much about
> this. If it should affect a patch because some changes crossed I'll generally
> fix it up whilst applying whichever gets applied second and ask the
> authors to check I didn't make a mistake.
>
> Joanthan
>>
>> Regards,
>> Subhajit Ghosh
>>
>
Thank you for the detailed information. Appreciate you help.

Regards,
Subhajit Ghosh

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