On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:32:03AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > > 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.
> Then what happens if the tree that your patch finally gets sucked into > is pulled before the one you've written your code against? I'd say > basing your code on -next is generally a bad idea. Submitters should defintely at the very least be checking against the subsystem tree (since that's what they're really submitting against) - it's always annoying when someone submits code that either doesn't apply or fails to build with the current tree.
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