Re: [PATCH V2] drivers: CCI: fix used_mask init in validate_group()

[Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 15:38 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 03:03:07PM +0100, Mark Salter wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 14:33 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > > > Could you please send this to arm-soc as suggested by Will, with the 
> > > > > relevant acks/reviews  ?
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I sent it on Tuesday. Did it not show up? Is arm@kernel.org the correct
> > > > address? I got the cc:
> > > > 
> > > > From: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
> > > > To: arm@kernel.org
> > > > Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
> > > > Subject: [PATCH V2] drivers: CCI: fix used_mask init in validate_group()
> > > > Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:09:32 -0400
> > > > Message-Id: <1430240972-16386-1-git-send-email-msalter@redhat.com>
> > > 
> > > That's the right address, but that only goes to the maintainers, and
> > > doesn't get copied to any list. In future, please Cc linux-arm-kernel in
> > > addition.
> > 
> > That's where I sent it originally.
> 
> Sure, but it's good to Cc when sending to arm-soc so as to make it
> visible that the patches have been sent. Doing so avoids the necessity
> of queries like Suzuki's, and makes it possible for others to reply to
> the version sent to arm@kernel.org in the case of conflicts or other
> issues.

But why did it need to be sent to a private maintainer's list in the
first place? I think that the destination addresses of the original
posting was perfectly reasonable given output from get_maintainer.pl
and that sending me to a private list was an unnecessary hoop to
jump through.