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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: "Julia Lawall" <julia.lawall@inria.fr>,
	"Joe Perches" <joe@perches.com>,
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	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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	"Neil Armstrong" <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:44:29 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2009291441530.2808@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200929123734.GC4799@sirena.org.uk>



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

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-29 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-27 19:12 [PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements Julia Lawall
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 01/18] clk: uniphier: " Julia Lawall
2020-10-14  0:44   ` Stephen Boyd
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 02/18] ipmi:bt-bmc: " Julia Lawall
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 03/18] [ARM] pata_icside: " Julia Lawall
2020-09-28 16:47   ` Joe Perches
2020-09-28 17:11     ` Julia Lawall
2020-09-28 17:57       ` Joe Perches
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 04/18] hwrng: stm32 - " Julia Lawall
2020-10-02 11:55   ` Herbert Xu
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 05/18] bcma: " Julia Lawall
2020-10-01 13:24   ` Kalle Valo
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 06/18] hwrng: iproc-rng200 - " Julia Lawall
2020-09-28  1:42   ` Florian Fainelli
2020-10-02 11:55   ` Herbert Xu
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 07/18] hwrng: mxc-rnga " Julia Lawall
2020-10-02 11:55   ` Herbert Xu
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 08/18] agp: " Julia Lawall
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 09/18] clk: mvebu: ap80x-cpu: " Julia Lawall
2020-10-14  0:44   ` Stephen Boyd
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 10/18] clk: meson: " Julia Lawall
2020-09-28  9:47   ` Jerome Brunet
2020-10-08  1:54     ` Stephen Boyd
2020-10-14  0:44   ` Stephen Boyd
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 11/18] clocksource/drivers/mps2-timer: " Julia Lawall
2020-10-01  8:13   ` [tip: timers/core] clocksource/drivers/mps2-timer: Use " tip-bot2 for Julia Lawall
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 12/18] ACPI: use " Julia Lawall
2020-09-27 20:27   ` Christophe JAILLET
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 13/18] crypto: " Julia Lawall
2020-10-02 11:56   ` Herbert Xu
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 14/18] regmap: debugfs: " Julia Lawall
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 15/18] counter: " Julia Lawall
2020-09-28 15:37   ` David Lechner
2020-09-29 15:27     ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 16/18] clocksource/drivers: " Julia Lawall
2020-10-02 14:29   ` [tip: timers/core] clocksource/drivers/armada-370-xp: Use " tip-bot2 for Julia Lawall
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 17/18] crypto: atmel-tdes - use " Julia Lawall
2020-10-02 11:56   ` Herbert Xu
2020-09-27 19:12 ` [PATCH 18/18] drbd: " Julia Lawall
2020-09-27 20:08 ` [PATCH 00/18] " Joe Perches
     [not found] ` <160132172369.55460.9237357219623604216.b4-ty@kernel.org>
2020-09-29  0:45   ` Joe Perches
2020-09-29 11:37     ` Mark Brown
2020-09-29 11:46       ` Julia Lawall
2020-09-29 12:37         ` Mark Brown
2020-09-29 12:44           ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2020-09-30 19:33       ` Joe Perches
2020-10-01 11:01         ` Mark Brown
2020-10-03 18:40           ` Joe Perches
2020-10-03 19:15             ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-10-03 19:18               ` Julia Lawall
2020-10-03 19:31                 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-10-03 19:43                   ` Joe Perches
2020-10-05 16:52                     ` Mark Brown
2020-10-03 19:27               ` Joe Perches
2020-10-03 19:36                 ` Joe Perches
2020-09-29 12:20 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-09-29 12:36   ` Julia Lawall
2020-09-29 12:41   ` Dan Carpenter
2020-09-29 12:47     ` Julia Lawall
2020-09-29 13:34       ` Joe Perches
2020-09-29 13:42         ` Julia Lawall
2020-09-29 13:42         ` Shuah Khan
2020-10-02 16:47           ` Shuah Khan

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