From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E4F882FA4 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E49806143B; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:06 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1619097847; bh=ST09M5/IeLSyYIlyP8NsRuiOj2/o8WaBqQDQ/weJzYg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=m1tGD8as1XDEL0SxdTgYnuzaCBaQS2AqW84M1m43mDIhtWqp9T8YOLhao47/CluYk j/soFCdPadh0VwHuJ/su+ep9Bpa5Ko3s98Klsw+u8kNUn+/Zg0JsZ1l+a5lQIVFwoz 3/iSjr3wmdfYwBEwRsYhK5WrAtbw1g/K1nysNAPCuehJYLyqswMijMPoABQ+C5mnrx ls/Z1wUnInkcv0rSKza+t2lTjXc+ZrbubdQxjG62W+waYy4amwRwxJQ50vOJ7vmVly RXngt9FP0A6APqPue1fbIkuIkgXt36lZMVtRCojlVpgCDkOnNF+oJH/ZQUu/1o/gQD qMRLBBqr823Bg== Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:23:39 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Mike Rapoport Cc: Leon Romanovsky , James Bottomley , ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Rethinking the acceptance policy for "trivial" patches Message-ID: <20210422132339.GF4572@sirena.org.uk> References: <20210422124023.GD4572@sirena.org.uk> X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IvGM3kKqwtniy32b" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Cookie: Jesus is my POSTMASTER GENERAL ... User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) --IvGM3kKqwtniy32b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 03:54:22PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 01:40:23PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > The flip side of copying everyone on everything is that especially for > > serieses which aren't just repetitive changes this gets really noisy > > really quickly and things end up just not getting read. > I think this is quite subjective and different people have different email > flows. Well, it also depends a lot on why the series is going to lots of people - the MFD/new SoC case is very different to the adding and using a new API case for example. > For me the most annoying is to get several patches from the middle of a > series. IMHO, sending at least cover letter to everyone is the bare minimum > so that people at least can take a look at high level details and request a > repost. Yes, the cover letter should always go to everyone. --IvGM3kKqwtniy32b Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEEreZoqmdXGLWf4p/qJNaLcl1Uh9AFAmCBeNoACgkQJNaLcl1U h9A9UQf8Ch0AlsYxmBarB71WenBwOTYw8Iz7eGCXdFBjlUHBJr5+s8kwdvb7hCf3 91tvMbCdU6bfoSQ/igdoeeL2KOi0GEynaaVLl3nCysn1xBB9FWR1HZaIqAm3b2pm dKuQzF1nSDud1MBkD88SCi3CvuTq8KlRq/bCRo5Tvsxu8ln3q1HlUICUiTRm05aD ZHQCAGSnCSFbJXz0KLSHe4Vj6cW3Fw4A2Yv9JlsRacTm7POQO3tjTSwFbYat+Fuv qFLOHIPKPEnxCmcoHjb4eRufb9HpZ5atoqtvo3EnXRF/zR4BXQ9CiD2/w3wMPCFg 92Zv58iHVUoT03zF21t6tlhAjNV1Gg== =HiHV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IvGM3kKqwtniy32b--