Hello Manuel, On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > When submitting trivial patches such as fixing typos in comments, should I always Cc all people suggested by get_maintainer.pl? Sending to everyone pointed by get_maintainer.pl is usually a good idea. > > For example, I noticed a typo in comments in drivers/base/power/common.c for which get_maintainers.pl suggests 4 individuals plus 2 mailings lists (to which I think I should add the Trivial Patch Monkey). Intuitively, it feels wrong to personally spam 4 people for such a trivial thing. OTOH, maybe it's OK because those people are used to handle a very large volume of email anyway, and they prefer to have an opportunity to see everything, no matter how trivial. There is no rule, but a good starting point is the log of the file you plan to change. $ git log drivers/base/power/common.c As the history doesn't show many trivial patches, maybe there are other files that are more likely to be a good starting point(I'm assuming you are starting sending patches to Linux). > > What's the best usage here? I think that you can start in files from drivers/staging, as there is usually work to be done there. Good luck! _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
