From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753330Ab1ECOxH (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 10:53:07 -0400 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:56645 "EHLO opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752757Ab1ECOxE (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 10:53:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 15:53:02 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Frederic Weisbecker Subject: Re: [RFC patch 01/32] TRACE_EVENT: gradual semicolon removal Message-ID: <20110503145302.GT1762@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <20110502211123.163877033@efficios.com> <20110502213211.250108074@efficios.com> <20110503140717.GA29736@Krystal> <1304433457.25414.2399.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1304433457.25414.2399.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> X-Cookie: You should go home. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.