On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 06:41:41PM +0800, Julia Lawall wrote:

> mailing lists.  If the patches are sent separately, then could there be a
> cover letter for each one?  If the semantic patch is complicated, then I
> typically put the whole thing there, and an abbreviated one in the actual
> patch.  That is not relevant here, because the semantic patch is small.

Well, if the cover letter is needed to understand the patch then it
needs to go to everyone anyway...

> Part of the purpose of the cover letter was to allow people who were not
> interested to skip over the whole thing at once.

On the flip side things that lack context can get discarded easily.

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