From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: mt7621-dma: Add braces around else branches Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 12:07:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20181024110745.GV30658@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> References: <20181023211142.GA2661@v> <20181024045653.GA2864@v> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Sender: "devel" To: Matthias Brugger Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, Kimberly Brown , NeilBrown , Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=FCtke-Stetzkamp?= , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, John Crispin List-Id: linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org 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. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line in suburbia: sync at 12.1Mbps down 622kbps up According to speedtest.net: 11.9Mbps down 500kbps up