On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Stephen Brennan <stephen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Gilad, > > Thanks for the quick reply, I really appreciate your taking time to help a > newbie get started. I've made the appropriate changes and re-submitted. It is completely my pleasure. Thanks, > >> TIP: if you run the scripts/get_maintainers.pl script on your patch it >> will tell you exactly which >> list and which people your patch needs to be addressed, so you don't >> have to guess. > > When I ran this tool, it listed out quite a few mailing lists, including > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Is it correct to simply address your patch to > the whole list output by the script? I omitted linux-kernel on my > resubmission, simply to avoid contributing to the heavy volume of that > list, given how trivial this patch is. > Strange as it may sound, it is the protocol. If you think you cringe when sending a trivial patch there wait till you send the 20th revision of a patch that get_maintainer says needs to be cross posted to half a dozen mailing lists... :-) Posting to lkml is more than just informative. There are actually automated tool that will pick your patch and run it through a bunch of static analysers tools and try to compile it and sometime boot on a dozen different archs. Besides, lkml is a fire host as it is... :-) Gilad > Thanks again! > Stephen > -- Gilad Ben-Yossef Chief Coffee Drinker "If you take a class in large-scale robotics, can you end up in a situation where the homework eats your dog?" -- Jean-Baptiste Queru
