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

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 09:32:06AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > LKML has become mostly a firehose of patches that are already going to a
> > subsystem list. The reason is THE REST: it matches every file in the
> > tree, so get_maintainer.pl adds linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to every
> > single patch. During the week of Oct 1-7, 2026:
> > 
> >   - LKML carried 13,641 messages (~1,950/day), 90% of which were also
> >     sent to at least one other list;
> >   - with ~2,100 subscribers, that is about 29 million deliveries per
> >     week for LKML alone.
> 
> That sort of implies that 2100 people are happy to receive all the
> patch emails.

Doesn't really matter, since those who are at gmail.com aren't really
receiving "all the patch emails" anyway and they are impacting everyone else.
Gmail is simply not usable for high-volume mailing list traffic.

There are other, better ways to get all patches that doesn't involve
subscribing to SMTP deliveries.

-K