Hi Jiri,
On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 7:37 AM Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08. 04. 24, 7:32, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > On 08. 04. 24, 7:29, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> >> Many maintainers won't drop Cc: tags if they are there in the submitted
> >> patch. So I agree with Andy that we should encourage folks not to add
> >> them in the first place.
> >
> > But fix the docs first.
> >
> > I am personally not biased to any variant (as in: I don't care where CCs
> > live in a patch).
>
> OTOH, as a submitter, it's a major PITA to carry CCs in notes (to have
> those under the --- line). Esp. when I have patches in a queue for years.
(Good to discover I'm not the only one carrying Very Old Patches ;-)
> How do people handle that? (Like rebases on current kernel.)
Keep them under the --- line in the actual commits, just like your
changelog? All of that is retained when rebasing.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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