Re: Git repo to use for submitting patches

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Thanks. It's much more clear now.

2015-07-11 19:46 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 10/07/15 12:51, Daniel Baluta wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Giuseppe Barba
>> <giuseppe.barba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> sorry I'm new in this list.
>>> I wold like to submit some patches to add support for new sensor.
>>> I'm not sure what repo I have to use for code rebasing. I've found:
>>>
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git
>>>
>>> is it the correct one?
>>
>> Yes. Please use 'testing' branch.
> Actually that's a bit risky unless you need something in it.
> It does get rebased.  I've been rather snowed under with day job stuff
> last couple of weeks so haven't kept things as clean as they should be
> but in theory:
>
> 1) togreg branch gets pushed out first as testing, but that's to let
>    the autobuilders play with it rather than as an official branch to
>    base anything on.
> 2) I fix up issues in testing found by the autobuilders and push it as
>    as the togreg branch.
> 3) When enough stuff has built up I send a pull request to Greg KH
>    and following that fastforward my tree.
>
> Just to confuse things, fixes go via the fixes-togreg branch and make
> it into the togreg branch only during the fastforward after Greg
> has pulled in the previous patches to his tree.
>
> So general principle is the togreg branch.  Actually for new sensors
> that are unlikely to interact much with recent patches, staging/staging-next
> is also usually fine, or even use Linus' mainline tree.
>
> Jonathan
>>
>> thanks,
>> Daniel.
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