On Sat, Mar 18, 2023, at 8:01 PM, Thomas Weißschuh wrote: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 01:59:38PM -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 18, 2023, at 12:35 PM, Thomas Weißschuh wrote: >> > Hi Mark, >> > >> > please also CC linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and previous reviewers. >> >> My apologies on previous reviewers - that was a miss on my behalf >> >> I've never cc'd linux-kernel previously - is that a requirement? It's >> new to me if it is - what's the reason? (that mailing list seems >> unusable to me from my limited experience...) > > The wording in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst is indeed > unclear about always Cc'ing linux-kernel. > > My arguments for it are: > > - People can look at the linux-kernel archives to see what's going on > all over the kernel. (I do that sometimes myself) > Also it makes it easier to search on lore.kernel.org on linux-specific > messages/patches. The /all/ archives also contains other projects. > > - Some bots are processing proposed patches from mailing lists. > These are not subscribed to all subsystem lists. > > - The b4 tool does it. > > - Greg does it: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230313182918.1312597-5-gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Thomas All good reasons :) I will start doing that going forwards. Thanks for the clarification. Mark
