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Message-ID: <03ace72f8c8796e2a2f24a86e089a617daef9688.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2023 06:43:06 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        workflows@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Enable Designware XGMAC VLAN Stripping Feature 1/2]
 dt-bindings: net: snps,dwmac: Add description for rx-vlan-offload

On Tue, 2023-07-25 at 08:19 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> On 7/25/23 02:33, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Hi Joe,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 6:22 AM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > > I do suggest you instead write wrapper scripts to get
> > > the output you want rather than updating the defaults
> > > for the script and update the process documentation
> > > to let other people know what do to as well.
> > > 
> > > Something akin to Mario Limonciello's suggestion back in 2022:
> > > 
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220617183215.25917-1-mario.limonciello@amd.com/
> > 
> > FTR, this is more or less what I am using to generate a script
> > to send out patches:
> > 
> >      OUT=...
> >      echo git send-email \\ > $OUT
> >      # Add -cc
> >      # Wrap comment inside $(: ...)
> >      # Replace (...) in comment by [...]
> >      # Replace ] at EOL by ) again
> >      # Add continuation to EOL
> >      scripts/get_maintainer.pl $* | \
> >      tr -d \" | \
> >      sed -e 's/^/--cc "/' \
> >          -e 's/ (/" $(: /' \
> >          -e 's/ (/ [/' -e 's/)/]/' \
> >          -e 's/]$/)/' \
> >          -e 's/$/ \\/' | \
> >      tee -a $OUT
> >      echo "*[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.*" >> $OUT
> > 
> > After generation, I edit the script to
> >    - Replace some --cc by --to,
> >    - Add/remove some people,
> > and run "source $OUT" to send the patches...
> > 
> > Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> My script is great for single subsystem patches as it gets all the right 
> people but I've found problems whenever it crosses multiple subsystems.
> 
> Many subsystem owners want to see the whole series of patches to 
> understand how they interact.  So the group of patches needs to be 
> treated together which would need the wrapper to look at all patches 
> instead.

Which can't really work all the time as vger has a recipient limit
and subsystem spanning patches frequently exceed that limit.

bcc's don't work well either as the reply-to chain is broken.

No great solution to that.