On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 15:18 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 19 October 2010, Joe Perches wrote: > > 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. > > Probably not even then: When a single mail header gets too long, you usually land > in some spam filter and get hate mail from the list owners. The lkml limit is 1024 > characters (this may come from an official RFC, don't know), which is usually less > than 35 recipients. Patches just shouldn't be this large. You want smaller patches for a lot of reason. Take the BKL, would it have been acceptable to make all the BKL changes in a single patch (and what would the CC have looked like)? If you do anything remotely sophisticated then , from my perspective, a tree wide patch just isn't going to work. Daniel -- 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
