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Message-Id: <20130122.140803.575298725595555169.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:08:03 -0500 (EST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: arnd@...db.de
Cc: thierry.reding@...onic-design.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, dmitry.torokhov@...il.com,
w.sang@...gutronix.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/33] net: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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.
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