Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: submitting-patches: make LKML a list of last resort again

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2026, 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@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs