On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 09:27:10AM -0800, Sinclair Yeh wrote:
Hi,
For the first time, I sent out a patch series that touched multiple subsystems.
I used "get_maintainer.pl" to figure out who all the maintainers are and decided to send the entire series to x86@kernel.org" and Cc "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org"
I also Cc'ed individual patches to (what I thought were) the appropriate maintainers.
One of the maintainers, GregKH, said I probably should have CC'ed him on the entire series, but get_maintainer.pl listed him as a "supporter" for only a subset of the patches.
Can someone tell me where I went wrong in my thought process so I can get it right the next time?
thanks,
Sinclair
PS. Mentioning GregKH rather than "a maintainer" only because I know he maintains kernel-stable so maybe he's got a more expanded role. Since the series was not for kernel-stable, I thought following get_maintainer.pl is the right approach.
But, I'm the maintainer for the drivers/misc/ subsystem, which this patch series did touch, so you should have cc:ed me on it, or at the very least, the vmbus developers should have told you that as they forward patches on to me. For multi-subsystem patchsets like this, it's important to cc: everyone relevant on the 00/XX email so we all know what is going on, not to just copy them on a single email in a series, otherwise we will be confused and not know what to do with only patch 03/06 or so, especially when patach 03 depends on earlier patches. And really, your patcheset hit all of one specific type of driver, so the maintainers of that subsystem should take care of this all for you, you shouldn't be responsible for sending it to all different places. hope this helps, greg k-h