merge struct block_device and struct hd_struct

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:04:04AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 18.11.2020 09:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 09:56:11AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> since this isn't the first series from you recently spamming
> >> xen-devel, may I ask that you don't Cc entire series to lists
> >> which are involved with perhaps just one out of the many patches?
> >> IMO Cc lists should be compiled on a per-patch basis; the cover
> >> letter may of course be sent to the union of all of them.
> > 
> > No way.  Individual CCs are completely broken as they don't provide
> > the reviewer a context.
> 
> That's the view of some people, but not all. Context can be easily
> established by those who care going to one of the many archives on
> which the entire series lands. Getting spammed, however, can't be
> avoided by the dozens or hundreds of list subscribers.

kernel patches are never "spam", sorry, but for developers to try to
determine which lists/maintainers want to see the whole series and which
do not is impossible.

Patches in a series are easily deleted from sane mail clients with a
single click/keystroke all at once, they aren't a problem that needs to
be reduced in volume.

thanks,

greg k-h