On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:04:04AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 18.11.2020 09:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 09:56:11AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> since this isn't the first series from you recently spamming > >> xen-devel, may I ask that you don't Cc entire series to lists > >> which are involved with perhaps just one out of the many patches? > >> IMO Cc lists should be compiled on a per-patch basis; the cover > >> letter may of course be sent to the union of all of them. > > > > No way. Individual CCs are completely broken as they don't provide > > the reviewer a context. > > That's the view of some people, but not all. Context can be easily > established by those who care going to one of the many archives on > which the entire series lands. Getting spammed, however, can't be > avoided by the dozens or hundreds of list subscribers. kernel patches are never "spam", sorry, but for developers to try to determine which lists/maintainers want to see the whole series and which do not is impossible. Patches in a series are easily deleted from sane mail clients with a single click/keystroke all at once, they aren't a problem that needs to be reduced in volume. thanks, greg k-h
