there was discussion about this just some days ago. CC 4-5 lists is more than enough On 23/12/2018, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Dec 2018, Tom Psyborg wrote: > >> Why do you CC this to so many lists? > > Because the different files are in different subsystems. The cover letter > goes to a list for each file, or to a person if there is no list. The > patches go to the people and lists associated with the affected files. > > julia > >> >> On 23/12/2018, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Drop LIST_HEAD where the variable it declares is never used. >> > >> > --- >> > >> > drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c | 5 ----- >> > drivers/dma/dw/core.c | 1 - >> > drivers/dma/pl330.c | 1 - >> > drivers/dma/sa11x0-dma.c | 2 -- >> > drivers/dma/st_fdma.c | 3 --- >> > drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c | 1 - >> > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c | 5 ----- >> > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c | 3 --- >> > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c | 1 - >> > drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/queue.c | 1 - >> > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_nvme.c | 2 -- >> > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c | 2 -- >> > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c | 1 - >> > drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 1 - >> > drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c | 2 -- >> > fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 1 - >> > fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 1 - >> > fs/nfsd/nfs4layouts.c | 1 - >> > fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 1 - >> > fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c | 1 - >> > 20 files changed, 36 deletions(-) >> > >> >
