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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 at 20:52, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Historically, not all subsystem mailing lists were as well-archived
as lkml.  Nowadays, as long as a patch ends up on lore, it's fine.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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