Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] i2c: uniphier: add two I2C controller drivers for UniPhier SoC platform

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Mon Oct 26 2015 - 04:36:03 EST


On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 09:31:15AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Masahiro Yamada
> <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 2015-10-26 17:17 GMT+09:00 Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>> This series adds two I2C controller drivers.
> >>> (they are completely different IPs.)
> >>>
> >>> The first one is a very simple FIFO-less I2C controller,
> >>> which is used on some older UniPhier SoCs.
> >>>
> >>> The other one is higher-performance I2C controller with TX/RX FIFO,
> >>> used on newer UniPhier SoCs.
> >>
> >> And you have sent this to me because ... ?
> >
> >
> > No special reason.
> >
> >
> > I sent this series to linux-i2c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > I guess you were automatically CC'ed by scripts/get_maintainer.pl.
> >
> > Using get_maintainer.pl is a normal process when sending patches, I think.
>
> Please use common sense. It doesn't make much sense to CC everybody who
> ever made a minor edit to an affected file.
>
> If checkpatch comes up with more than 5 names, this should ring a bell.

I usually use get_maintainer.pl with --no-git-fallback to catch people
listed in MAINTAINERS only. But mileages vary a lot in that area.

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