Re: [PATCH v2 00/25] Apple M1 SoC platform bring-up

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 01:54:25AM +0900, Hector Martin wrote:
> On 16/02/2021 01.12, gregkh wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:57:27AM +0900, Hector Martin wrote:
> > > On 15/02/2021 22.22, gregkh wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 01:57:39PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > > (adding maintainers for the serial/irqchip/clocksource drivers and
> > > > > arch/arm64 to cc)
> > > > > 
> > > > > I would suggest merging it together as a series through the soc tree for
> > > > > v5.13, once each patch has been reviewed by the respective subsystem
> > > > > maintainers, with possible add-on patches on the same branch for
> > > > > additional drivers that may become ready during the 5.12-rc cycle.
> > > > > After the initial merge, driver patches will of course go through subsystem
> > > > > trees as normal.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Let me know if that works for everyone.
> > > > 
> > > > Sure, as long as the maintainers get to see the patches, I don't think
> > > > I've seen the serial ones at all...
> > > 
> > > Sorry, I figured Krzysztof would take a look at it first and I didn't want
> > > to spam too much. I'm still getting used to figuring out who to CC...
> > 
> > scripts/get_maintainer.pl is your friend.
> 
> It's the additional step of figuring out who to include from
> get_maintainer.pl output, and whether any subsetting is warranted at all,
> that I'm finding less well documented... :-)
> 
> (In particular for a bring-up series such as this one, where most people are
> only concerned with a few patches... but maybe I'm just overthinking things)

For bigger patchsets, you should combine get_maintainer.pl with sending
emails so individual patches will go to all role-based entries from
get_maintainer.pl and to all mailing lists. You can (and sometimes even
worth to) skip proposals based on git-history.

Then the cover letter which should go to everyone... or most of people
and linked from individual patches.

For example the easiest I think:
1. Put all folks and lists as "Cc:" in cover letter.
2. Send everything:
   git send-email --cc-cmd "scripts/get_maintainer.pl --no-git --no-roles --no-rolestats" --to linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 0*

Optionally you could add --no-git-fallback to get_maintainer if it
proposes some irrelevant addresses.

Other way is to send first cover letter and then reference it via
in-reply-to:

1. To get everyone for cover letter:
   scripts/get_maintainer.pl --no-multiline --interactive --separator=\'' --to '\' --no-git --no-roles --no-rolestats 00*

2. git send-email --cc linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ... 0000*

3. Finally all patches with in-reply-to:
   git send-email --cc-cmd "scripts/get_maintainer.pl --no-git --no-roles --no-rolestats" --to linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --no-thread --in-reply-to='foo-bar-xxxxxxx' 000[123456789]-* 00[123456789]*-*

Best regards,
Krzysztof