From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755337Ab3AVTIG (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:08:06 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:55725 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753899Ab3AVTIF (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:08:05 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:08:03 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20130122.140803.575298725595555169.davem@davemloft.net> To: arnd@arndb.de Cc: thierry.reding@avionic-design.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, w.sang@pengutronix.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/33] net: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource() From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <201301221303.06785.arnd@arndb.de> References: <20130121.152913.1377695352860141642.davem@davemloft.net> <20130122065629.GA14523@avionic-0098.adnet.avionic-design.de> <201301221303.06785.arnd@arndb.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:03:06 +0000 > On Tuesday 22 January 2013, Thierry Reding wrote: >> I planned to do so initially, but that yielded a Cc list of 156 people >> and mailing lists, which I thought wasn't going to go down so well >> either. In general I like Cc'ing everyone concerned on all patches of >> the series, specifically for reasons of context. Some people have been >> annoyed when I did so. Still, for small series where only a few dozen >> people are concerned that seems to me to be the best way. But 156 email >> addresses is a different story. >> >> Either you add to many people or you don't add enough. Where do we draw >> the line? > > I've had the same problem a couple of times. The best compromise seems > to be to Cc only the top-level subsystem maintainers and mailing lists > on the first email. CC:'ing individuals is pointless, CC: only the subsystem lists in question, the maintainers had better be reading those lists.