Where to base my patches on?

[Matthias Beyer]

Hi,

thanks, this helps a lot. I'm doing checkpatch.pl cleanup patches for
the staging stuff.

Besides, I received this mail about 10 times. Maybe something went
wrong somewhere?

On 18-05-2014 10:09:11, Greg KH wrote:
> 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

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Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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