Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] get_maintainer: stop sending every patch to LKML

[Theodore Tso]

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