Re: RFC: switching "THE REST" in MAINTAINERS away from linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Mark Brown
2023-11-07T10:47:29Z

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On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 10:18:58AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> Indeed, I suspect that a lot of the traffic to LKML does not come from "THE
> REST", but rather from people using a git-send-email configuration like

> [sendemail]
> to = linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

> I'm afraid that having everyone switch this to patches@lists.linux.dev will
> take a looooong time. Right now I import LKML via public-inbox for use by
> https://patchew.org/linux/, it doesn't include all messages but it's pretty
> close; the patches@lists.linux.dev mailing list by comparison hardly gets
> any message apart from Greg's stable kernel queues.

Note that get_maintainers.pl at some point started everyone to CC lkml
on everything, it's *much* more likely that people are picking things up
from there than that they've gone and made an explicit configuration
like this.

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