From: "Theodore Tso" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, users@kernel.org,
Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>,
Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@kernel.org>,
Avadhut Naik <avadhut.naik@amd.com>, Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>,
Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev>,
Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>,
Chen-Yu Yeh <chenyou910331@gmail.com>, Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>,
workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] get_maintainer: stop sending every patch to LKML
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:51:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ate3lqnWlk9zLZC5@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0605a3c99b55124d1be71c9939f636e2@perches.com>
On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 08:53:04AM -0500, Joe Perches wrote:
> > This issue came up during the 2026 Maintainer Summit and the consensus
> > was that "always include linux-kernel for every patch" was never the
> > intent.
>
> That's not actually true.
>
> Lkml was the default mailing list and other lists were specific to their
> interests.
Historical practice for decades before the change was made that plenty
of patches only went to the subsystem list (e.g., linux-ext4,
linux-scsi) and it was *never* intentional that LKML was supposed to
be cc'ed for all patches. That didn't match historical behavior, and
as far as I know no one was asking for that change. If someone
managed to slip that into submitting-patches, that was either a
mistake by the submitters or the people reviewing the change.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-20 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-20 15:35 [PATCH v2 0/2] get_maintainer: stop sending every patch to LKML Konstantin Ryabitsev
2026-10-20 15:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] get_maintainer: only use THE REST as a fallback Konstantin Ryabitsev
2026-10-20 15:47 ` Joe Perches
2026-10-20 15:52 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2026-10-20 16:39 ` Joe Perches
2026-10-20 15:35 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: submitting-patches: make LKML a list of last resort again Konstantin Ryabitsev
2026-10-20 16:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-10-20 15:53 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] get_maintainer: stop sending every patch to LKML Joe Perches
2026-10-20 18:51 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2026-10-20 16:44 ` Weijie Yuan
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