On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 02:48:22PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 02:58:56PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 01:30:42PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > As documented in submitting-patches.rst please send patches to the > > > maintainers for the code you would like to change. The normal kernel > > > workflow is that people apply patches from their inboxes, if they aren't > > > copied they are likely to not see the patch at all and it is much more > > > difficult to apply patches. > > > I know that different maintainers have different preferences. For example > > in the subsysteem, where I'd worked for about 10 years the maintainer > > preferred not to be CCed on patches, he preferred to pick up patches from > > his mailing list folders, or whatever arrangement his mail filters > > provided for. I learned already that in ALSA / ASoC it's usual to CC > > maintainers. But I wasn't sure whether that also holds for larger patch > > series. E.g. my main patch series now consists of 14 patches, so, I > > thought, that maybe you would rather not receive multiple copies of the > > entire seriees for each new version both directly in your inbox and in > > the mailing list folder. Or is it indeed your preference to always be > > CCed on all patches? I apologise for re-iterating a question, that > > probably had been addressed multiple times before, maybe it's worth > > documenting this somewhere on ALSA web? > > Yes, copy me on patches. This is, as covered in what I wrote above, the > standard and documented approach for the kernel - unless you explicitly > know that there is some unusual approach for a specific subsystem you > should assume that if you want people to see your patches you need to > send the patches to them. Got it, thanks!
