On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 06:25:08AM -0700, David Miller wrote:

> > 4) David should then merge the regmap for-next branch into net-next

> Nope, this doesn't work at all.

> It is my tree which people depend upon, not the other way around.

Yes, it does work - this is the way we normally handle cross tree
issues.  There is nothing about pulling code from other trees into your
tree which will stop other people depending on your tree, obviously
anything you merge in needs to stay fast forward only and ideally not
make any resulting pull requests look terrible but that's really the
only restriction.