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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Patch version changes in
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Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> writes:
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 2:22 PM Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>> > If you've got the link back to the mailing list archive, do you also
>> > need Cc: tags in the change log?
>
> Probably not.
>
>> > It's always seemed to me they don't really add any value, they just tell
>> > you that lots of people were Cc'ed on the patch and probably didn't have
>> > time to review it :)
>> 
>> +1
>> 
>> Especially if the CC list was generated by blindly copying the output
>> from scripts/get_maintainer.pl, without passing through a common sense
>> filter.
>
> And the maintainer then blindly picks it up :)

Sorry to pick on you but I figure you can handle it :D

This is the kind of thing we should really have a script to check for,
so that maintainers don't have to think about it when committing.

cheers