how to sync with mainline

[Lee Jones]

Hi Barry,

> I am a freshman to linaro. I found people sent some patches to
> linaro-dev at lists.linaro.org. Here I have 2 questions:
> 1. Whether will linaro send those patches based on newest tree to
> Linus' mainline or not?  Or developers need to send those patches to
> mainline by themselves?

Authors need to post their own patches to the relevant mailing lists [1]
for inclusion into the Mainline kernel.

> Is there any document to describe how linaro contribute patches to
mainline?

As above.

> 2. If other SoC companies work based on linaro's
> linux-linaro-next.git, whether it will not need to work based on
> Linus' tree since linux-linaro-next.git will sync with mainline?

If your patches are going into Mainline, they will need to be built
against the Mainline tree. If they are not going upstream, then the
chances are they won't be accepted into the Linaro tree either.

[1] http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html

Kind regards,
Lee