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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:56:24 -0800
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To: Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC: zhengxing@...k-chips.com, linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
keescook@...gle.com, leozwang@...gle.comi, linux@....linux.org.uk,
devicetree@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
paul.gortmaker@...driver.com, galak@...eaurora.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk,
pawel.moll@....com, geert@...ux-m68k.org, mark.rutland@....com,
robh+dt@...nel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v1 0/4] Add support emac for the RK3036 SoC platform
On December 29, 2015 2:27:55 PM PST, "Heiko Stübner" <heiko@...ech.de> wrote:
>Hi Dave,
>
>Am Dienstag, 29. Dezember 2015, 15:53:14 schrieb David Miller:
>> You have to submit this series properly, the same problem happend
>twice
>> now.
>>
>> When you submit a series you should:
>>
>> 1) Make it clear which tree you expect these changes to be applied
>> to. Here it is completely ambiguous, do you want it to go into
>> my networking tree or some other subsystem tree?
>>
>> 2) You MUST keep all parties informed about all patches for a series
>> like this. That means you cannot drop netdev from patch #4 as
>> you did both times. Doing this aggravates the situation for
>> #1 even more, because if a patch is not CC:'d to netdev it does
>> not enter patchwork. And if it doesn't go into patchwork, I'm
>> not looking at it.
>
>I guess that is some unfortunate result of git send-email combined with
>
>get_maintainer.pl . In general I also prefer to see the whole series,
>but have
>gotten such partial series from other maintainers as well in the past,
>so it
>seems to be depending on preferences somewhat.
You could run get_maintainer.pl against the individual patches in the series, merge the cc list somewhere in a file/variable and then do the actual mail submission with that full list for all patches. There could be a way to automate that with a bit of help from git send-email eventually.
--
Florian
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