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From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
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> Regarding splitting the series up. I don't see a problem in just
> sending the cover-letter patch and actual GPIO-related patches to
> the GPIO-maintainers with no need to have them added to Cc in the rest
> of the series.

The Linux community has to handle a large number of patches. I don't
particularly want patches which are of no relevance to me landing in
my mailbox. It might take 4 or 5 rounds for the preparation patches to
be accepted. That is 4 or 5 times you are spamming the GPIO
maintainers with stuff which is not relevant to them.

One of the unfortunately things about the kernel process is, there are
a lot of developers, and not many maintainers. So the processes need
to make the life of maintainers easier, and not spamming them helps.

   Andrew