Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] get_maintainer: only use THE REST as a fallback

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 08:47:01AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Only add THE REST for a file when no other matching section provides a
> > mailing list that get_maintainer.pl would actually output. Lists marked
> > "subscribers-only" are omitted unless --s is given, and lists marked
> > "moderated" are omitted with --no-moderated, so such lists don't count
> > as a destination in those cases. Files that match no section, or only
> > sections without such a list, still fall back to THE REST, so every
> > patch keeps reaching at least one known-public mailing list.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> 
> I don't disagree that this is useful but v2: no changelog
> 
> Perhaps there's a simpler and more generic mechanism.  I'll play with it for
> a couple days.

It's like to convey the sense of urgency -- with the amount of patches,
automated reviews, and follow-ups being sent daily, having all of them land on
LKML and delivered to 2000+ subscribers... is not sustainable. At this point,
I'm very close to outright banning subscriptions from gmail, outlook and yahoo
addresses. Not sending every single patch to the LKML is a better way to deal
with this.

-K