From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 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=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no 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 E3C22C4741F for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:45:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98C0020708 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:45:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729641AbgI2Mpn (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:45:43 -0400 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]:37866 "EHLO mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2387503AbgI2Moi (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:44:38 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,318,1596492000"; d="scan'208";a="470059088" Received: from abo-173-121-68.mrs.modulonet.fr (HELO hadrien) ([85.68.121.173]) by mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 29 Sep 2020 14:44:29 +0200 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:44:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Julia Lawall X-X-Sender: jll@hadrien To: Mark Brown cc: Julia Lawall , Joe Perches , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jerome Brunet , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, David Lechner , =?UTF-8?Q?Valdis_Kl=C4=93tnieks?= , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, Martin Blumenstingl , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Thomas Gleixner , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Neil Armstrong Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements In-Reply-To: <20200929123734.GC4799@sirena.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <1601233948-11629-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr> <160132172369.55460.9237357219623604216.b4-ty@kernel.org> <20200929113745.GB4799@sirena.org.uk> <20200929123734.GC4799@sirena.org.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (DEB 394 2020-01-19) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 01:46:19PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > Feel free to submit patches to b4. Ideally things like this wouldn't be > > > being sent as serieses in the first place, there's no dependencies or > > > interactions between the patches. > > > It was suggested (a long time ago, not with respect to this patch in > > particular) that sending such patches in a series is useful because it > > allows people who are not interested in the 18 patches to skip over them > > more easily. So there are two conflicting needs... > > I'm not convinced that there are huge numbers of people reading LKML as > a list TBH, and if you are sending things as a series then the way > you're doing it at the minute where you don't CC the cover letter to > people makes things confusing as it's unclear if there are dependencies > to worry about. The cover letter goes to all of the specific mailing lists affected by the patch, or if there is no list, then to at least one developer. Sending the cover letter to everyone would lead to too many recipients for some lists. If there is a preference for the rest of these patches to be sent one by one, then that is possible. julia