On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 09:56:06AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > 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 Got it, thanks for that, good advice. > 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
