Re: Suppressing auto-cc for specific addresses

[Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 10:20:26PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
>> I'm looking for a way to suppress certain Cc: fields that are
>> normally automatically added for addresses mentioned in Cc: lines
>> found in patches.
>>
>> In particular, the kernel rules for marking patches for stable
>> release inclusion wants users to add a "Cc: stable@kernel.org" line
>> in the patch itself but to not actually send a copy of that patch to
>> that address. It will be picked automatically once the patch was
>> applied upstream.
>
> There is no "rule" that says you can not send a copy of the patch to
> stable@kernel.org, in fact that happens a lot and is fine and I have no
> problem with that at all.

Ok, thanks for explaining. In fact, I've done it that way ever since,
and never thought that there is any problem with it. But the topic
came up lately on the ALSA ML (and was continued off-list later), and
reading Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt again, I became aware of
the fact that sending it to stable@ is not actually necessary (while
at the same time, it doesn't seem to be frowned upon).

Anyway, I found it strange not have a way in git to achive this, and
maybe this new feature has other uses, too?


Thanks,
Daniel