Re: [Enable Designware XGMAC VLAN Stripping Feature 1/2] dt-bindings: net: snps,dwmac: Add description for rx-vlan-offload

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 25/07/2023 15:43, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-07-25 at 08:19 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> On 7/25/23 02:33, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> Hi Joe,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 6:22 AM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>>>> I do suggest you instead write wrapper scripts to get
>>>> the output you want rather than updating the defaults
>>>> for the script and update the process documentation
>>>> to let other people know what do to as well.
>>>>
>>>> Something akin to Mario Limonciello's suggestion back in 2022:
>>>>
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220617183215.25917-1-mario.limonciello@amd.com/
>>>
>>> FTR, this is more or less what I am using to generate a script
>>> to send out patches:
>>>
>>>      OUT=...
>>>      echo git send-email \\ > $OUT
>>>      # Add -cc
>>>      # Wrap comment inside $(: ...)
>>>      # Replace (...) in comment by [...]
>>>      # Replace ] at EOL by ) again
>>>      # Add continuation to EOL
>>>      scripts/get_maintainer.pl $* | \
>>>      tr -d \" | \
>>>      sed -e 's/^/--cc "/' \
>>>          -e 's/ (/" $(: /' \
>>>          -e 's/ (/ [/' -e 's/)/]/' \
>>>          -e 's/]$/)/' \
>>>          -e 's/$/ \\/' | \
>>>      tee -a $OUT
>>>      echo "*[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.*" >> $OUT
>>>
>>> After generation, I edit the script to
>>>    - Replace some --cc by --to,
>>>    - Add/remove some people,
>>> and run "source $OUT" to send the patches...
>>>
>>> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>>
>> My script is great for single subsystem patches as it gets all the right 
>> people but I've found problems whenever it crosses multiple subsystems.
>>
>> Many subsystem owners want to see the whole series of patches to 
>> understand how they interact.  So the group of patches needs to be 
>> treated together which would need the wrapper to look at all patches 
>> instead.
> 
> Which can't really work all the time as vger has a recipient limit
> and subsystem spanning patches frequently exceed that limit.
> 
> bcc's don't work well either as the reply-to chain is broken.
> 
> No great solution to that.
> 

For small patchsets (and recipients list) I recommend:
https://github.com/krzk/tools/blob/master/linux/.bash_aliases_linux#L91

For bigger patchsets - Rob's sendemail identity could work:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAL_JsqLubWBr2W3xZPsuPLOGav7CFgBdH=aCfT22F_m0_cx3cQ@mail.gmail.com/
but cover letter has to be treated separately.

Anyway, it is not the case here. This is small patchset and the
submitter should run get_maintainers.pl on *the patchset*, not on one
chosen file. Running it one one file, ignoring maintainers of all other
patches, does not make sense. There is nothing to fix in
get_maintainers.pl. I believe our docs are also correct here.

Best regards,
Krzysztof