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Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:50:01 -0500
From:   Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Noralf =?utf-8?Q?Tr=C3=B8nnes?= <noralf@tronnes.org>
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Subject: Re: git send-email friendly smtp provider anyone?
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 06:42:19PM +0100, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
> The first thing that strikes me is that everyone mentioned in one of the
> patches get the entire patchset, even stable@vger.kernel.org (cc'ed in a
> fixes patch). The first patch touches a core file and as a result a few
> drivers, so I've cc'ed the driver maintainers in that patch, but now
> they get the entire patchset where 5 of 6 patches is about a driver that
> I maintain. So from their point of view, they see a patchset about a
> driver they don't care about and a patch touching a core file, but from
> the subject it's not apparent that it touches their driver. I'm afraid
> that this might result in none of them looking at that patch. In this
> particular case it's not that important, but in another case it might be.

I did some (unscientific) polling among kernel maintainers and, by a vast
margin, they always prefer to receive the entire series instead of
cherry-picked patches -- having the entire series helps provide important
context for the change they are looking at.

So, this is deliberate and, for now at least, not configurable. Unless you're
sending 100+ patch series, I doubt anyone will have any problem with receiving
the whole series instead of individual patches.

> As for the setting up the web endpoint, should I just follow the b4 docs
> on that?
> 
> I use b4 version 0.10.1, is that recent enough?

Yes. There will be a 0.10.2 in the near future, but the incoming fixes
shouldn't make much difference for the b4 send code.

-K