On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:00:39AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

1. develop on -rc
2. merge with latest -next, test and make sure it works there
3. submit for review against -rc
4. have patches included in -next once reviewed, but based on -rc
5. when merge window opens, have patches sent for upstream inclusion

Steps 3 and 4 should be to submit against whatever branch is appropriate
for the subsystem and driver - if people follow this process they're
going to get bounced back by a fair proportion of maintainers, -rc isn't
universally what people are looking for so people should be aware that
they need to pay attention here.  

Generally I'd say the development version is a safer bet than -rc for
most subsystems.
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