Re: A question on selection of source tree for patch submission

From: Julie Sullivan
Date: Wed Aug 03 2011 - 17:47:30 EST


>   For the Kernel patch submission, Should I clone the source from
> mainline or the linux-next tree ?

You mean for generally submitting or testing patches? I'd clone mainline

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

and then remote track linux-next (or any other branch a specific
maintainer would want you to test against, this depends on what your
patch is for).

Cheers
Julie
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