Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7ACAC43612 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 06:19:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768BB217F9 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 06:19:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728749AbeL2GTj (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Dec 2018 01:19:39 -0500 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]:57844 "EHLO mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728681AbeL2GTj (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Dec 2018 01:19:39 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.56,412,1539640800"; d="scan'208";a="362048899" Received: from abo-91-111-68.mrs.modulonet.fr (HELO hadrien) ([85.68.111.91]) by mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 29 Dec 2018 07:19:35 +0100 Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 07:19:35 +0100 (CET) From: Julia Lawall X-X-Sender: jll@hadrien To: "Darrick J. Wong" cc: Dan Carpenter , Tom Psyborg , Julia Lawall , Andy Shevchenko , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Dan Williams , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Stefano Stabellini , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] drop useless LIST_HEAD In-Reply-To: <20181229052504.GA16315@magnolia> Message-ID: References: <1545555435-24576-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <20181227134055.GA2272@kadam> <20181229052504.GA16315@magnolia> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 28 Dec 2018, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 04:40:55PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 11:12:20PM +0100, Tom Psyborg wrote: > > > there was discussion about this just some days ago. CC 4-5 lists is > > > more than enough > > > > > > > I don't know who you were discussing this with... > > > > You should CC the 0th patch to all the mailinglists. That much is a > > clear rule. > > > > For the rest, Julia's position is the more conservative one. I was in > > a conversation in RL and they were like, "CC everyone for all the > > patches". It depends on the context, of course. If the patches are > > dependent on each other then you *have* to CC everyone for everything. > > Agreed. Ms. Lawall, sending "Cover letter + all relevant XFS patches" > (as you did) was exactly the right thing for us xfs types. :) > > For that matter, we prefer to receive through linux-xfs more patches > than necessary (one can send the entire series if one is unsure) than to > go wanting for more context. Thanks for the confirmation. I was planning to ignore the 4-5 advice, because there is no way in this case to make a meaningful 4-5 list suggestion - it's either all or nothing. But 20 patches at once is perhaps a lot as well. In this case, I just wanted to get rid of the whole issue at once. julia