[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] patman: add option for limiting the Cc list

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon May 28 01:45:10 UTC 2018


On 27 May 2018 at 03:52, Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com> wrote:
> Many mailing-lists consider a long Cc list a sign of spam and will
> either drop the message or mark it for moderation. Because patman
> automatically invokes get_maintainer.pl the Cc list can expand
> unexpectedly. Allow the user to specify a limit for the Cc list.
>
> This limit is applied after removing any known bouncing addresses. By
> default no limit is applied.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com>
> ---
> I've fallen foul of the u-boot ML Cc limit a few times recently. I'm not
> sure what the actual limit is so I've left patman's default behaviour
> unlimited.
>
> Changes in v2:
> - make default None to allow limit 0 to suppress the list completely
>
>  tools/patman/patman.py | 4 +++-
>  tools/patman/series.py | 5 ++++-
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>


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