linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/18] use ARRAY

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Date:   Mon, 2 Oct 2017 07:35:54 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Jérémy Lefaure <jeremy.lefaure@....epita.fr>
Cc:     "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] use ARRAY_SIZE macro

On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 08:52:20PM -0400, Jérémy Lefaure wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 09:01:31 +1100
> "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc> wrote:
> 
> > > In order to reduce the size of the To: and Cc: lines, each patch of the
> > > series is sent only to the maintainers and lists concerned by the patch.
> > > This cover letter is sent to every list concerned by this series.  
> > 
> > Why don't you just send individual patches for each subsystem? I'm not a maintainer but I don't see
> > how any one person is going to be able to apply this whole series, it is making it hard for
> > maintainers if they have to pick patches out from among the series (if indeed any will bother
> > doing that).
> Yeah, maybe it would have been better to send individual patches.
> 
> From my point of view it's a series because the patches are related (I
> did a git format-patch from my local branch). But for the maintainers
> point of view, they are individual patches.

And the maintainers view is what matters here, if you wish to get your
patches reviewed and accepted...

thanks,

greg k-h