Re: [workflows]RFC: switching "THE REST" in MAINTAINERS away from linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Laurent Pinchart
2023-11-09T09:33:12Z

On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 11:32:16AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 02:04:15PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> > Right. For example, I use linux-trace-kernel@ to add patches to patchwork,
> > but I prefer the discussions to be done on LKML.
>
> I had no idea that how tracing worked... I normally strip out mailing
> lists from my patches if I think they're not necessary so I seldom CC
> lkml. In years past, there used to be a lot of complaining about CC'ing
> too many people so I try to trim the CC list when I send patches.

I do exactly the same and drop LKML from most of my patch submissions if
there are more "appropriate" (in the sense of more targetted) lists
reported by get_maintainer.pl.

> Networking doesn't need to be CC'd about wireless patches.
> Drm doesn't need to be CC'd about amd gpu driver patches.
>
> And for bug reports, I only ever CC one lore mailing list. (For zero
> day bot stuff, the bot chooses the CC lists).

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart