Dear all,
Patches now should be generated against the linus' tree or the

linux-next tree?
Regards

--Himanshu
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You'd be ill-adviced to do development against -next, but it does make

sense to check -next before submission.
What to submit depends a bit on who's you'd be submitting to I guess.

Andrew Morton runs a tree itself based on -next and if you'd submit to

him it might make sense to generate the patch against -next.
Generally though, I wouldn't if the difference is just some offsets or

something else small. -next's entire purpose is to do integration work

and while one way of doing that work is ofcourse making everyone _else_

do it, I feel that's not a winning approach in the long run; developers

should concern themselves with their own code, not everyone else's. The

latter is what integrators do.
But surely _checking_ -next makes sense and if there's something

fundamental, you might want to redo the patch on top of it and be

explicit about what you depend on. Or something. Common sense...
Rene.
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