Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH 8/9] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use a separate platform device for hwmon and name it

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-09-25T16:53:11Z

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > > Cc: LM Sensors ML <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
> > >
> > > It's pretty pointless to have a mailing list listed here, as the list
> > > itself can't ack nor nack your patch.
> >
> > People in the list certainly can :-) But if you'd rather I cc you directly,
> > I will change it.
>
> Actually you'd rather Cc the hwmon subsystem maintainer, if anyone, and
> that's not me. But I was really only commenting on the Cc: in the
> header of the patch, not the Cc: when sending the patch. Cc'ing the
> lm-sensors list when sending your patch was of course correct. Just
> writing it down in the patch header doesn't make sense.

That's how I track down whom I need to CC. These patches often sit on my
queues for a while before I submit them anywhere, so I'd have to actually
place the maintainers *and* the list in the patch headers. The patches are
sent in patch sets, and often have different CCs on individual patches.

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Henrique Holschuh