From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; t=1792565587; b=K7mzH22a5tNXV+nAhRVkjP4BEiHRBFEAeiCW4ttaw53isjwk8C3PDE44J4s476siqoRG ecd5Mfm7JShOHnQa6GWB7ofCKN51z0eJv0KKKrqXxpl0lvBhs++oadfJIvrK8jb40fXOH kakVfDmFfl2Ndy0VfQG9eTYxLxtVX6wTCe1F9N/y0yjrmtEj8WQCc6+fieqqNq9tTqfWV JzBjG/+wOWBAnmPq15uFCpFflhuLHPnDsDLk7niD0s659ytUIF8PX+EclOvalC7FJHu8Z 35K/VXhwD0hWOwibPu7U1VBt99xYJa4lSbCfjPOOmVH2hsxFPYpg07VLSJ/IJDWMFpQ== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1792565587; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; bh=ZXswQmPkQHrbX1c4l2ohaW+AstYKB7ekLJny/L5XdpQ=; b=t8a3OK3rXzlOp8qSe1/WlgH+C1KXrX4jUH7T3c6pQ67LR81KdL4pA0bLMIlEPse1st+2 VUd5XLNJtdkOF1AtMcJU1MMJ+RT59PAef4YoP7YLH0LYHskR5lPA0aaZu9/kTVaIAqItA A0EgHgkPjzKXJjGUMSwy3T3demgecJJMAOf/2shGM729W/h41Ni05TZvGKGthZWuPGKqC V6BDFHZnQJo0GbKN5LF0/nP5Mm4b0ZDvIfjrO9yTyUdQaKuvDSxzhqingU/gRU2Hc7+21 7qz5rP1Ur44tzn7yZ9c9h4k87A0chIOTboHpihFZmQ7X5Cy9n5uRQM/ccEeIbUIDipA== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (quasi.space.kernel.org [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2A441606A31B; Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:53:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6B2D61F000C9; Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:53:06 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:48:21 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Konstantin Ryabitsev Cc: Joe Perches , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, users@kernel.org, Federico Vaga , Akira Yokosawa , Carlos Bilbao , Avadhut Naik , Alex Shi , Yanteng Si , Dongliang Mu , Chen-Yu Yeh , Weijie Yuan , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Petr Pavlu Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: submitting-patches: make LKML a list of last resort again Message-ID: <2026102112-skating-freebie-ea2d@gregkh> References: <20261020-get-maintainer-the-rest-fallback-v2-0-162aea473488@linuxfoundation.org> <20261020-get-maintainer-the-rest-fallback-v2-2-162aea473488@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev > --- > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 9 ++++++--- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman