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On 12/16/21 11:55, Bill Wendling wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 4:57 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>>
>> Bill,
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 15 2021 at 13:18, Bill Wendling wrote:
>>
>> please always CC the relevant mailing lists, i.e. this lacks a cc:
>> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>>
> I thought that was automatically added. But as Peter pointed out in
> another email thread, no one has time to read the LKML, so it seems a
> bit pointless? Nonetheless it's added now.
> 

Consider linux-kernel a distributed archive. Noone reads it in real 
time, but it is really great to be able to search for someone specific 
in one place.

	-hpa