Re: [PATCH 0/3] MODVERSIONS + RUST Redux

[Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name>]

On 11/15/23 16:24, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> Should I be sending all these patches to all the lists? I was trying
> to follow the recommendations of get_maintainers.pl, which thought
> modules were the only relevant folks for the export_modules patches.
> (I also added Gary + Masahiro explicitly due to their involvement with
> the previous approach.)
> 
> If I should be sending all the patches to all the lists, should I also
> be adding all the suggested To/Cc lines for all the patches, or? I
> didn't see any suggestions on how to approach this in
> https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#select-the-recipients-for-your-patch
> 


 From my experience doing work that touched a large number of areas
across the kernel, I would usually cc everyone on the cover letter
so they have context and then only add the relevant people/lists
to the specific patches. I would generate the patches then
manually go through and adjust the To/Cc lists from get_maintainers
before sending them out with git-send-email. Here, I would
definitely make sure the cover letter got sent to the powerpc
list for example.

That said, a three patch series is pretty short so you could
probably get away with ccing everyone on all the patches unless
you've gotten complaints. There are probably other opinions here
too.

Thanks,
Laura