From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, 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 2/2] docs: submitting-patches: make LKML a list of last resort again
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:48:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026102112-skating-freebie-ea2d@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261020-get-maintainer-the-rest-fallback-v2-2-162aea473488@linuxfoundation.org>
On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 11:35:26AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> Commit 77167b966b7e ("docs: submitting-patches: clarify the role of
> LKML") changed the documentation to say that all patches should be sent
> to LKML by default, because get_maintainer.pl always suggested it.
>
> Now that get_maintainer.pl only falls back to THE REST when no other
> matching section provides a mailing list, update the documentation to
> match: send patches to the subsystem-specific list, and use LKML only
> when there isn't one.
>
> Suggested-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-21 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ 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
2026-10-21 6:29 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-10-21 6:48 ` Greg KH [this message]
2026-10-21 8:33 ` Lee Jones
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
2026-10-20 16:44 ` Weijie Yuan
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