From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julia Lawall Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 06:19:35 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] drop useless LIST_HEAD Message-Id: List-Id: References: <1545555435-24576-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <20181227134055.GA2272@kadam> <20181229052504.GA16315@magnolia> In-Reply-To: <20181229052504.GA16315@magnolia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Stefano Stabellini , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Dan Williams , Andy Shevchenko , Tom Psyborg , Dan Carpenter On Fri, 28 Dec 2018, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 04:40:55PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 11:12:20PM +0100, Tom Psyborg wrote: > > > there was discussion about this just some days ago. CC 4-5 lists is > > > more than enough > > > > > > > I don't know who you were discussing this with... > > > > You should CC the 0th patch to all the mailinglists. That much is a > > clear rule. > > > > For the rest, Julia's position is the more conservative one. I was in > > a conversation in RL and they were like, "CC everyone for all the > > patches". It depends on the context, of course. If the patches are > > dependent on each other then you *have* to CC everyone for everything. > > Agreed. Ms. Lawall, sending "Cover letter + all relevant XFS patches" > (as you did) was exactly the right thing for us xfs types. :) > > For that matter, we prefer to receive through linux-xfs more patches > than necessary (one can send the entire series if one is unsure) than to > go wanting for more context. Thanks for the confirmation. I was planning to ignore the 4-5 advice, because there is no way in this case to make a meaningful 4-5 list suggestion - it's either all or nothing. But 20 patches at once is perhaps a lot as well. In this case, I just wanted to get rid of the whole issue at once. julia