Re: [RFC patch 01/32] TRACE_EVENT: gradual semicolon removal

Mark Brown
2011-05-03T14:53:07Z

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 10:37:37AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> BTW, next time don't Cc the world on generic patch sets like this. If
> someone is Cc'd in one of the patch sets and wonders what it is about.

OTOH it's nice for maintainers to be told about stuff like this rather
than having to find out through -next failures if they do some
incremental work in the area.

> a) You did not write your change log well enough

> b) It contains unrelated changes

> c) They could look at lkml.org to find out what this patch set is about.

> (c) is what I usually do when I'm Cc'd in a middle of a patch series.

Though in this case the combination of a and b undermined the
effectiveness of c.