From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/18] x86: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:12:31 -0700 Message-ID: <537F736F.4070002@zytor.com> References: <1400777250-17335-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> <1400777250-17335-17-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> <537E30AF.4070501@zytor.com> <20140523144604.GF21319@arm.com> <537F60E0.1060307@zytor.com> <20140523145758.GG21319@arm.com> <537F6728.3090600@zytor.com> <20140523153409.GI21319@arm.com> <537F6C85.107@zytor.com> <20140523155626.GI30445@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:39750 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752750AbaEWQNa (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2014 12:13:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140523155626.GI30445@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Will Deacon , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "arnd@arndb.de" , "monstr@monstr.eu" , "dhowells@redhat.com" , "broonie@linaro.org" , "benh@kernel.crashing.org" , "paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar On 05/23/2014 08:56 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 08:43:01AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 05/23/2014 08:34 AM, Will Deacon wrote: >>> >>> There is also a documentation patch [1] in this series but, >>> again, I didn't CC everybody on it. Sorry, but the level of >>> interest this sort of stuff generates amongst kernel developers >>> is close to zero so I only included people I thought cared on >>> CC for the entire series. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard >>> place trying to CC interested people whilst at the same time >>> trying to avoid spamming all the arch maintainers. >>> >> >> If you are sending me a patch, please include me on the cover >> letter for the patch series. You don't have to send me the >> entire patch series (although for something like a Documentation >> patch which affects x86 I would consider including the union list >> as well.) >> >> I think regardless of level of interest, the definition of >> cross-architectural operations is exactly the arch maintainers >> job, so it isn't really out of place to "spam" us... > > So the one issue I had with that, is that if one tries to send an > email to all arch maintainers + linux-arch + linux-kernel, the > header gets too big and vger chokes and davem slaps you. > > So while its possibly desirable to do big unions with 0/xx and the > like, its practically infeasible. > ... or at least requires the use of a particular advanced technology called Bcc:. Not that I like Bcc:s, mind you, but it is probably better in this case. I have no idea how smart vger is, but it would be interesting if it could ignore addresses from the MAINTAINERS list... -hpa