On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 06:22:15PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> >> And then think very hard about which patches people need to see in >> order to be able to evaluate a patch. For example, if you have patch >> 1 out of a series which adds a new function, and then patches 2 >> through 1000 modify a thousand different drivers to use that new >> function, if you use an automated get_maintainers.pl script to send >> each patch to just the maintainer, then the device driver maintainer >> might not see patch #1 which is critical context to understanding the >> patch that you want to make to his driver. And then you will have >> several hundred very angry and annoyed developers wondering why you >> sent them patch 345/1000, with no other context, and wondering what >> the heck they are supposed to do with the email that you have just >> launched into their inbox. > > I'm still stuck in the old stone/quilt age, where I use quilt mail to > send my patch bombs. Although, I have scripts that pulls my patches out > from git with format-patch, and then creates a quilt queue from them. > I do this for that very reason that I want to review all patches before > I hit send, and quilt mail is very basic and sends what I tell it. > I still a bit gun shy from using git sendmail as I never got that to > work (note, the last time I tried, it was still doing the staircase > threads with patches by default). > > I'm still content with quilt, but the one thing I don't care about it > is that all Cc'd on the 0/1000 patch gets Cc'd on all patches. I wish > there was a way to tell quilt that they should only get Cc'd on the > cover patch and no more, unless the patch has them Cc'd. The reason this > bothers me is that I tend to do exactly what you stated above. I will > just Cc patch 345/1000 to someone with no context of what that patch > is. > > I figured people would do the same thing that I do when I get that 345th > patch. As I'm subscribed to LKML, I will just go into my lkml folder and > search for that patch and see how that thread applies to me with full > context. I'm assuming that's what others may do too. > Hi Steve Why not share your quilt skills, say by adding a file in the Document directory? Hillf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
