From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: julia.lawall@lip6.fr (Julia Lawall) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:06:18 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v2] staging: mt7621-dma: Add braces around else branches In-Reply-To: <20181024110745.GV30658@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> References: <20181023211142.GA2661@v> <20181024045653.GA2864@v> <20181024110745.GV30658@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, 24 Oct 2018, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:45:44PM +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote: > > Hi Kiberly, > > > > Thanks for adding all the emails in CC. > > I would encourage you for your next patch to distinguish between CC and TO. > > You should send your patch TO important maintainers in the get_maintainers.pl > > list (as default, to all of them). If there is someone you really want to look > > into the patch, then add him/her in TO as well. > > > > Put the rest (people and mailing lists) in CC. Why? Some people filter their > > mails so that they can concentrate on the mails they got send directly and look > > on mails they are in CC with lower priority (maybe not at all, because there are > > too much?). So it is important to have the maintainers in the TO list and not in CC. > > +1 > > I'm glad that there's someone else in the Linux community that agrees > with me on this point, and is willing to speak out about it. If it's an important point, perhaps it should be mentioned in submitting-patches.rst? There is a mention of the Cc tag, but no indication of who to put in CC. julia