Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the msm tree with the arm tree

From: Daniel Walker <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:03:26 -0700

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 15:18 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 October 2010, Joe Perches wrote:
> > This could have been done:
> > 
> > $ git show 08a610d9ef5394525b0328da0162d7b58c982cc4 | ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit | wc -l
> > 35
> > 
> > Even then, using 35 CCs is generally silly.
> > 
> > It might make some sense for a cover letter and a
> > patch series where the series made tree-wide changes
> > in multiple directories.
> 
> Probably not even then: When a single mail header gets too long, you usually land
> in some spam filter and get hate mail from the list owners. The lkml limit is 1024
> characters (this may come from an official RFC, don't know), which is usually less
> than 35 recipients.

Patches just shouldn't be this large. You want smaller patches for a lot
of reason. Take the BKL, would it have been acceptable to make all the
BKL changes in a single patch (and what would the CC have looked like)?
If you do anything remotely sophisticated then , from my perspective, a
tree wide patch just isn't going to work.

Daniel