Re: [PATCH] add basic b4 config file

[Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>]

On 05/09/2025 14:29, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
> 
> b4[1] is a very nice tool for mail-based contribution. A config[2] file
> exists to set up a few defaults. We can use it to set the To recipients
> to always add, in our case the mailing list.
> 
> This shouldn't be necessary if we had a script that b4 prep --auto-to-cc
> could call to find the mail address(es) to send to, à-la
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl from the kernel tree.
> 
> This allows us to not have to look for the mailing list to send the
> patches to, just use b4 and you're all set.
> 
> [1] https://pypi.org/project/b4/
> [2] https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/config.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
> ---
> Since that ML is also used for other repos than v4l-utils and I've seen
> a few people using [v4l-utils] as prefixes, should we add
> 
> send-prefixes = v4l-utils
> 
> to the config file as well?

Yes please.

I'm not sure I want to have this in v4l-utils, but if I do, then definitely with
that prefix.

When you post the new patch, please prefix it with v4l-utils as well.

Regards,

	Hans

> ---
>  .b4-config | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/.b4-config b/.b4-config
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..31873a088f0b32c174363f8b56a54a976b87fb17
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/.b4-config
> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> +[b4]
> +  send-series-to = linux-media@vger.kernel.org
> 
> ---
> base-commit: fc46fc8771bff905204e7463ab03ed1f355436b1
> change-id: 20250905-b4-1e813446afa4
> 
> Best regards,