[PATCH v2] staging: mt7621-dma: Add braces around else branches

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at armlinux.org.uk
Wed Oct 24 11:07:45 UTC 2018


On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:45:44PM +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> Hi Kiberly,
> 
> Thanks for adding all the emails in CC.
> I would encourage you for your next patch to distinguish between CC and TO.
> You should send your patch TO important maintainers in the get_maintainers.pl
> list (as default, to all of them). If there is someone you really want to look
> into the patch, then add him/her in TO as well.
> 
> Put the rest (people and mailing lists) in CC. Why? Some people filter their
> mails so that they can concentrate on the mails they got send directly and look
> on mails they are in CC with lower priority (maybe not at all, because there are
> too much?). So it is important to have the maintainers in the TO list and not in CC.

+1

I'm glad that there's someone else in the Linux community that agrees
with me on this point, and is willing to speak out about it.

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