On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:26:36PM +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:15:07PM -0700, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 02:47:03PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > This is a giant CC list. > > > > Yes, this is because I received feedback [1] on an earlier patchset > > directing me to add the reviewers of patches to the cover letter as > > well so that they get some context for the patch. > > ... > > [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pwm/msg11735.html > > Strictly speaking I only asked for backlight maintainers to be Cc:ed. > I was fairly careful to be specific since I'm aware there are a variety > of differing habits when putting together the Cc: list for covering > letters. > > With the original patch header the purpose of the patch I was Cc:ed on > was impossible to determine without the covering letter. I suspect this might be the case for all the other reviewers as well - that they also would appreciate context for the specific patch they are being added to review. I wasn't entirely sure what the convention was, so I applied your suggestion to all the files. How do you suggest I handle this in my next patchset? I fully agree that such a large CC list does look really ungainly. Thank you. Guru Das. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
