On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:47:15AM -0500, devendra.aaru wrote:

that maintainer's tree is next tree so that next can  pickup. once the
next pics up your changes gets merged there in next.

always its good to work against' maintainers trees, if its a fix then
its better work on the maintainer's torvalds's tree otherwise the next
tree in maintainer's repo

In past, I've been advised to base my work against linux-next tree.
See the mail [1] from Greg K H.

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/newbies/msg46076.html