[PATCH v13 00/11] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64

Guru Das Srinagesh gurus at codeaurora.org
Fri Apr 24 22:14:22 UTC 2020


On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 07:43:03AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> A great deal of mailing lists contain numerous protections against
> things like flooding and spamming.  One of those protections is a
> check for "Too many recipients to the message".  Most of the time this
> simply requires moderator intervention by way of review and approval,
> but this ultimately depends on the ML's configuration.
> 
> The first thing to ascertain is why your recipients list is so large.
> Have you added every reviewer, subsystem-maintainer, maintainer and
> contributor suggested by get-maintainer.pl?  If so, consider pruning
> that a little.  Contributors do not tend to care about subsequent
> changes to a file.  As someone who receives a lot of patches, I tend
> to get fed-up when receiving patches simply because I made a change X
> years ago.  Stick to listed maintainers/reviewers in the first
> instance and see how far that takes you.

Thank you for the detailed reply. I did this in the first few patchsets
and then when a few patches didn't get any attention, expanded the
audience thus. Still, around 50% of the patches in this series remain
unreviewed by anyone.

> If your recipients list is as succinct as reasonably possible, maybe
> just accept that every version isn't going to be archived by every
> ML.  It's still much more useful for the correct people to have
> visibility into the set than for it to be archived multiple times.

Thank you, will prune the list and remove past contributors from the
Cc-list and add all parties to all patches.

Thank you.

Guru Das.


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