From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753996AbbL2W4p (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:56:45 -0500 Received: from mail-oi0-f51.google.com ([209.85.218.51]:34234 "EHLO mail-oi0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753156AbbL2W4m (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:56:42 -0500 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <3925713.yDzK1dvrIv@diego> References: <1451287341-16453-1-git-send-email-zhengxing@rock-chips.com> <20151229.155314.1522114236952280828.davem@davemloft.net> <3925713.yDzK1dvrIv@diego> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v1 0/4] Add support emac for the RK3036 SoC platform From: Florian Fainelli Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:56:24 -0800 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Heiko_St=FCbner?= , David Miller CC: zhengxing@rock-chips.com, linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, keescook@google.com, leozwang@google.comi, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, galak@codeaurora.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, pawel.moll@arm.com, geert@linux-m68k.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Message-ID: <20898DB3-4FB5-4130-A69D-1DE4BC819A5C@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On December 29, 2015 2:27:55 PM PST, "Heiko Stübner" wrote: >Hi Dave, > >Am Dienstag, 29. Dezember 2015, 15:53:14 schrieb David Miller: >> You have to submit this series properly, the same problem happend >twice >> now. >> >> When you submit a series you should: >> >> 1) Make it clear which tree you expect these changes to be applied >> to. Here it is completely ambiguous, do you want it to go into >> my networking tree or some other subsystem tree? >> >> 2) You MUST keep all parties informed about all patches for a series >> like this. That means you cannot drop netdev from patch #4 as >> you did both times. Doing this aggravates the situation for >> #1 even more, because if a patch is not CC:'d to netdev it does >> not enter patchwork. And if it doesn't go into patchwork, I'm >> not looking at it. > >I guess that is some unfortunate result of git send-email combined with > >get_maintainer.pl . In general I also prefer to see the whole series, >but have >gotten such partial series from other maintainers as well in the past, >so it >seems to be depending on preferences somewhat. You could run get_maintainer.pl against the individual patches in the series, merge the cc list somewhere in a file/variable and then do the actual mail submission with that full list for all patches. There could be a way to automate that with a bit of help from git send-email eventually. -- Florian