On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:40:50PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:

> > The advice here is usually that sending against -next is a good proxy
> > for sending against the individual tree without having to figure out all
> > the different trees - almost all of the time the effect is the same.
> > This only applies when sending patches via e-mail, for git pulls it's an
> > absolute no of course.

> Good point. But it's worth reiterating that this should only be done
> if you have dependencies which haven't yet reached Mainline. 

It can be worth doing anyway with a subsystem that's actively developed
since sometimees the dependencies are the other way - the APIs in Linus'
tree may have gone away.

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