Re: [PATCH 00/20] drop useless LIST_HEAD

Julia Lawall
2018-12-29T06:20:01Z

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