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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 20/10/2026 17:35, 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 > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Best regards, Krzysztof