On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 03:49:15PM +0100, Jonathan Bergh wrote: > I have had the opportunity to submit a few patches, which has been > really fun. However, a while back i submitted patches for fixes that i > realised after had already been patched in GregKH tree ... and i > realised i had been developing against Linus's master branch, and not > linux-next. > > But my question is, is it better to develop against linux-next or in > newbies cases, one of GregKH's (staging) branches? Maybe > staging/master or staging/staging-next? There is no hard and fast rule about it, but in general: - if you are closely working with a particular subsystem, the best course of action is to develop against the indicated tree/branch (e.g. see T: entries in the MAINTAINERS file); you should rebase your series to the latest before sending it off to the maintainer - if you are an occasional contributor, you should use either the latest next tag for submitting your patches, or the latest mainline tag - if you are sending a one-off patch, basing it off of the latest mainline tag is just fine With any of these approaches you *will* occasionally have a mid-air collision with someone else -- it's just a reality when it comes to distributed workflows. -K _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
