Where to base my patches on?

[Greg KH]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 06:31:15PM +0200, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> quick question:
> 
> Greg K-H said[0] that drivers/staging/*/TODO help is appreciated, and
> that's where I want to start from. I already submitted patches, based
> on Linus Torvalds master, but I guess this is not really how to do
> it?
> 
> So where to base my patches on? I just fetched the branches from Greg
> K-H, but there are several... should I base my patches upon his master
> branch from his staging repository on kernel.org[1] or somewhere else?

It depends on what code you want to modify.  If you are working on
staging stuff, work off of my staging-next branch in the staging.git
tree.  Or you can work off of linux-next, that will have that branch
included in it.

If you have any questions about this, just let me know.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h