On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 04:40:55PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 11:12:20PM +0100, Tom Psyborg wrote: > > there was discussion about this just some days ago. CC 4-5 lists is > > more than enough > > > > I don't know who you were discussing this with... > > You should CC the 0th patch to all the mailinglists. That much is a > clear rule. > > For the rest, Julia's position is the more conservative one. I was in > a conversation in RL and they were like, "CC everyone for all the > patches". It depends on the context, of course. If the patches are > dependent on each other then you *have* to CC everyone for everything. Agreed. Ms. Lawall, sending "Cover letter + all relevant XFS patches" (as you did) was exactly the right thing for us xfs types. :) For that matter, we prefer to receive through linux-xfs more patches than necessary (one can send the entire series if one is unsure) than to go wanting for more context. --D > If we really have other clear rules, then it should be encoded into > get_maintainer.pl so that it's automatic. > > My other question is why do the linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > people feel like they need to be CC'd about every driver??? I always > remove them from the CC list unless it's an arch/arm issue. > > regards, > dan carpenter > > PS: Please, no more top posting. >
