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Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:55:12 -0700
From:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
To:	Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@...ox.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christopher Li <sparse@...isli.org>,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
	linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Pavel Pisa <pisa@....felk.cvut.cz>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/10] compiler{,-gcc4}.h: Introduce __flatten function attribute

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Daniel Santos <danielfsantos@....net> wrote:
> On 10/03/2012 09:01 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> You don't need to use get_maintainers. It's more of a help tool to find
>> maintainers and not something that is mandatory. Not everyone that has
>> ever touched one of these files needs to be Cc'd.
>>
>> Please move the patch to the patch series where it is used. Otherwise it
>> confuses reviewers as it did here.
> Ok then, but this would also apply to the addition of these macros as well:
> BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST
> BUILD_BUG42
> BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST42
>
> Should these then also be moved?

Yes, this would actually make things easier.

> Should I only CC those who have responded to these patches and whomever
> is in the MAINTAINERS file then?

There is no strong rule here, but generally get_maintainers returns
too many people. You want to trim down the list to something shorter;
a dozen people is the most I would consider (but for most patches a
half-dozen is already plenty).

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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