[PATCH v3 0/7] x86: Improve support for chain-loading U-Boot

[Simon Glass]

Hi Andy,

On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 07:04, Andy Shevchenko <
andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 06:24:07AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 06:09, Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 08:28:29PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 08:51, Andy Shevchenko
> > > > <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 04:22:13PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > > It looks like it went to the mailing list...
> > >
> > > > are you subscribed?
> > >
> > > It doesn't matter if you want people to pay an attention (by putting
them to Cc
> > > list), so, since it was one patch I can't see the rest and know if
they affect
> > > or not the one, you Cc'ed me to.
> >
> > I don't fully understand this, but are you saying you did not get the
> > patches in your email? If you subscribe to the U-Boot mailing list you
> > should receive all patches even if not cc'd to you.
>
> Probably I got to another email, not this one.
>
> > I did not specifically cc you on this series but I can do that if I
> > send it again. But patman has added you to one patch (number 3) and
> > therefore you are also cc'd on the cover letter.
>
> Yes, and this one I got without seeing full picture.
>
> > Can you check whether you are subscribed to the mailing list?
>
> As I said, I am not subscribed by email patman uses to Cc me.

Please consider subscribing to the mailing list. You'll miss a lot of
things otherwise. You can add an email filter.

>
>
> Basically it's a bug in patman. Either it shouldn't tell me, or should Cc
to
> the entire series. Of course there are cases, when patches are
independent and
> no need to spam everybody with tons of emails, but this should be
clarified in
> cover letter. Did I miss that?

It is that latter case that happened here. A series may have various
patches that are relevant to different maintainers, so they want to see
just those patches and the cover letter (for context). Perhaps this doesn't
happen so often with Linux?

Regards,
Simon