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From:   Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:42:07 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Fixes for HiSilicon LPC driver and logical PIO code
To:     John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
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        Linuxarm <linuxarm@huawei.com>,
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On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:56 PM John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> On 20/06/2019 13:42, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > For patches that go to a soc maintainer for merge, we're asking that
> > people don't cc arm@kernel.org directly.
> >
> > We prefer to keep that alias mostly for pull requests from other
> > maintainers and patches we might have a reason to apply directly.
> > Otherwise we risk essentially getting all of linux-arm-kernel into
> > this mailbox as well.
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Olof
> >
>
> Hi Olof,
>
> Can do in future.
>
> The specific reason here for me to cc arm@kernel.org was that I wanted
> to at least make the maintainers aware that we intend to send some
> patches outside the "arm soc" domain through their tree, * below.

That's fine -- but it's usually better to cc us individually in those
cases. We normally go find the patches on the lists if/as needed when
we see them come in as well.


-Olof