From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v2] staging: mt7621-dma: Add braces around else branches Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:14:54 +0100 Message-ID: <20181024131454.GW30658@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> References: <20181023211142.GA2661@v> <20181024045653.GA2864@v> <20181024110745.GV30658@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> 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: Julia Lawall Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , NeilBrown , outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, Kimberly Brown , Matthias Brugger , 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 02:06:18PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > 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. submitting-patches.rst talks about the Cc tag in the commit, not the To or Cc in the email client. In any case, there's a lot of personal issues here: most kernel developers don't care whether they're in the To or Cc header of an email, but there are some who do use it as Matthias says - which is actually the long-standing definition of these headers. -- 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