Re: [PATCH V1 2/3] MFD: da9052: Add new DA9053 BC chip variant

[Lee Jones]

> > I am. The trouble with basing your patches against -next is that it's
> > not stable, in that it is rebuilt every day. If your patches are
> > dependant on commits which haven't reached Mainline yet, then you
> > should rebase on the subsystem tree which they are contained in. All
> > patches in -next should be based on an -rc or a released kernel version.
> 
> 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. 

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