Question about submitting patch set against staging/iio/light/tsl2583

Question about submitting patch set against staging/iio/light/tsl2583

[Brian Masney]

Part of the tsl2583 driver cleanup that I am working on involves adding
device tree support to that driver. Based on the isl29018 driver cleanups
that I did, I now know that the device tree maintainers should be CCed for
any device tree changes. What is the appropriate way to submit my patch
set that spans two different subsystems? Should I submit my lone device
tree patch to linux-iio and CC the device tree maintainers? Then submit
the rest of my patch set to just the linux-iio maintainers? Or should I
CC the device tree maintainers with my entire patch set? I'm leaning
towards the separate approach to reduce the amount of noise to the
device tree list.

Brian

Re: Question about submitting patch set against staging/iio/light/tsl2583

[Jonathan Cameron]

On 26/10/16 18:38, Brian Masney wrote:
> Part of the tsl2583 driver cleanup that I am working on involves adding
> device tree support to that driver. Based on the isl29018 driver cleanups
> that I did, I now know that the device tree maintainers should be CCed for
> any device tree changes. What is the appropriate way to submit my patch
> set that spans two different subsystems? Should I submit my lone device
> tree patch to linux-iio and CC the device tree maintainers? Then submit
> the rest of my patch set to just the linux-iio maintainers? Or should I
> CC the device tree maintainers with my entire patch set? I'm leaning
> towards the separate approach to reduce the amount of noise to the
> device tree list.
Kind of depends on the balance of device tree to other elements in the series.
Either way create a whole series with all changes, but then add a Cc: line to the
patch description for the device tree ones.  git send-email will then pick that
up and add CCs for those patches only as it sends them.

Sometimes it's easier just to CC the whole lot.  Kernel reviewers get very
good at rapidly ignoring patch emails that aren't of interest to them!

J
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