On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 18:35 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 22:58 +0100, Russell King wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 02:29:22PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > That's why we have get_maintainer.pl, it adds in all the CC's > > > > automatically .. > > > $ git diff-tree -u 861bd81ee62a0d6759144c22909a8a3938951656 | scripts/get_maintainer.pl |wc > > > 209 624 8021 > > > 209 recipients / 8K of To:/CC: is reasonable? > > What it's showing you is anyone that's ever modified those files.. You > > just need the people who maintain the files. > > how about this, > > git show 08a610d9ef5394525b0328da0162d7b58c982cc4 | ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl | wc > > 58 163 2169 > > That's the patch we're actually discussing too. It's about one CC per > > file modified. > What is a mailing list for, then? Why are you subscribed? > Please get real or get away. Too true. The patch is entirely for arch/arm and relatively few if any maintainers need to be cc'd. This could have been done: $ git show 08a610d9ef5394525b0328da0162d7b58c982cc4 | ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit | wc -l 35 Even then, using 35 CCs is generally silly. It _might_ make some sense for a cover letter and a patch series where the series made tree-wide changes in multiple directories. Even so, lkml will sensibly reject emails with more than a couple dozen CC's as likely spam. For cover letters, I generally use: ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nom -l --nogit and for each patch in a series ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --no-git There is a change in the get_maintainers.pl in Andrew Morton's mm tree to default to --nogit. The new get_maintainer.pl is available from: git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/get_maintainer.git 20100922_gm Have a look at: http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/get_maintainer.git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
