On December 29, 2015 2:27:55 PM PST, "Heiko St?bner" [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Dave,

Am Dienstag, 29. Dezember 2015, 15:53:14 schrieb David Miller:

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You have to submit this series properly, the same problem happend

twice

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now.

When you submit a series you should:

1) Make it clear which tree you expect these changes to be applied
   to.  Here it is completely ambiguous, do you want it to go into
   my networking tree or some other subsystem tree?

2) You MUST keep all parties informed about all patches for a series
   like this.  That means you cannot drop netdev from patch #4 as
   you did both times.  Doing this aggravates the situation for
   #1 even more, because if a patch is not CC:'d to netdev it does
   not enter patchwork.  And if it doesn't go into patchwork, I'm
   not looking at it.

I guess that is some unfortunate result of git send-email combined with

get_maintainer.pl . In general I also prefer to see the whole series,
but have 
gotten such partial series from other maintainers as well in the past,
so it 
seems to be depending on preferences somewhat.

You could run get_maintainer.pl against the individual patches in the series, merge the cc list somewhere in a file/variable and then do the actual mail submission with that full list for all patches. There could be a way to automate that with a bit of help from git send-email eventually.

-- 
Florian