Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] rcu: Add Josh Triplett as designated reviewer

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 22:10 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 08:11:36PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
[]
> "the appropriate mailing lists" often just mean LKML,
> for many patches I've sent; almost nobody sees a patch only sent to
> LKML, unless they specifically go looking for it.)

It's a good thing then that Andre Morton is all-seeing.

> > the
> > quantity of names and addresses on the [0/n]
> > patch can easily exceed vger's 1024 byte
> > maximum header size limit.
> 
> Is that the limit on the size of any *one* header, or on the size of all
> headers combined?

All headers

> > Another possibility is to add a new "--bcc_cmd"
> > to git send-email so that vger's header limit
> > can be worked around.
> 
> That breaks the ability for the recipients to see replies.

<shrug>  If interested, the recipient knows where to look.

> > I had patches to git to do that awhile ago.
> 
> That'd be handy; did you try submitting them upstream?  What reception
> did you get?

I don't recall.
It was a bit after I added the cc-cmd stuff.
Nearly 7 years ago now.

> If you have objections to putting it directly in get_maintainer.pl,

I do.

> it'd
> be easy enough to make a secondary script (patch_add_maintainers?) to
> drive it.

Go for it.

cheers, Joe

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