On Tue, 03 Apr 2018, Julia Lawall julia.lawall@lip6.fr wrote:
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, Jani Nikula wrote:
Please do consider limiting the distribution in the future, though. There's no need to include lkml or even dri-devel for trivial patches like this.
It's complex to have to remember the preferences for every subsystem. Preferences should be expressed in the MAINTAINERS file in some way.
They are; it's just that get_maintainer.pl has silly defaults. There's no reason it should include the full chain from the leaf driver to the subsystem to the LKML by default, with a bunch of authors and commit signers on top. Especially so for supported drivers. I'm surprised it doesn't include Linus by default.
Also, since no one reads lkml, does it hurt to have even trivial patches?
Heh. Let's just say I care more about dri-devel.
BR, Jani.