From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com (mail-wm0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD882E81 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:23:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f49.google.com with SMTP id k204so29465896wmk.0 for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 07:23:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SCZBm75xlrMUPPTBOno7iGJrgsW+X73gnjZGZxOWwi0=; b=QMVxo6XEjSaLnLJdNwQEz8bOZVJwQufnG/oSmenDPNXVxT1ZyREnnf9roO+qp1JCLF vPoYMeuZU0JJXfYkemAS/bFtmFEZJE6Q3QyEcZ2rNMwxaWYja3C3k9DfEnn1MdYg3775 d6j7OiS63XnFTfgE4ftbSEgd9YGEWmLNyD9t5qVqrBX1o0MikzcjyseCr8zwLxDdyyep AQVseSlBovjIluLN7x7QK4n9IM5touVcls22UslU9gX/V+uq94IbFiw5yA2BkGDmLVXB eywKxUNmcUhRnBCImK0xBn+tZfqDGw9Zemduzr5ziO++BRx2c9npU2swgZ+8StPMPaIK 7aLA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SCZBm75xlrMUPPTBOno7iGJrgsW+X73gnjZGZxOWwi0=; b=YO4+uFEiMysrbPXWgN2nEBH00rsuCzR9TuGQy3pyLCzrTjJKgjpogtfHKQ+leSJvv6 uftthaSnxY4fUJZG1rAaYH7uIOrXx70NKN6n990gLLDnnmA1+7lPyYSMLKTWNWBETsSO TfcNL7VPhSxpPGx+r/JsRW8D7XC34tMXLFxPhcgJ4ZL/azh+k/3mbA3n6g3ZByuxjENi 4Zwws362x6iD8r8b2NAxbR9FuXyB21AeitzmEptFd0jFM12R5FDip55BBpFTVegPyUM7 p4m852GbS7GIAUS4HBNjymKSQ0E8TzfV5E93y9QEfiq+Idxv30ADSPVehjP/w7pjqUhe 9nzQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tKmgp9Q3IdDZuHROWjvTXf7Mn/MObfeSbny1BUi6Zy+jFgHlYLYfKm2say/d714kc2w X-Received: by 10.28.141.1 with SMTP id p1mr8923085wmd.33.1465223004355; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 07:23:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id hq2sm2395244wjb.36.2016.06.06.07.23.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 06 Jun 2016 07:23:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Yuanhan Liu Cc: "Mcnamara, John" , dev@dpdk.org, Christian Ehrhardt , Markos Chandras , Panu Matilainen Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:23:22 +0200 Message-ID: <8934963.xif5dsyFi0@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20160606141407.GE10038@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> References: <12523923.duYttjjiSP@xps13> <20160606141407.GE10038@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] RFC: DPDK Long Term Support X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:23:24 -0000 2016-06-06 22:14, Yuanhan Liu: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 03:31:09PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2016-06-06 19:49, Yuanhan Liu: > > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 06:05:15PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > > 2016-06-03 15:07, Mcnamara, John: > > > > > Developers submitting fixes to the mainline should also CC the maintainer so > > > > > that they can evaluate the patch. A email address could be > > > > > provided for this so that it can be included as a CC in the commit messages > > > > > and documented in the Code Contribution Guidelines. [...] > > Why put a CC tag in the commit? For automatic processing? > > Maybe it is too early to run before walking ;) > > It's a tip/trick used a lot in kernel community. Assume you have made > a patchset, that just one of them fixes a bug that you hope this patch > could also be cc'ed to the original author that introduces the bug. > You could achieve that by adding him to the cc list from cli. However, > in such way, all patches are cc'ed to him. The alternative is to add > a line "Cc: some.one " in the commit log so that he will > get that patch only. > > If you look at a small micro optimization patchset I sent out last > month [0], you will find that I used this trick for the 1st patch, > as it touches the core part of virtio-net vring operation, that I > hope I can get some comments from the virtio guru/maintainer, Michael. > Therefore, he is cc'ed. However, for the 2 other patches in the same > set, it's basically DPDK vhost-user stuff, so that I didn't cc him > to not bother him. > > This rule, of course, also applies to the stable branch (for bug > fixing patches in a set). It doesn't matter which way you take if > it's just a patch set of one bug fixing patch though. > > [0]: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-May/038246.html OK