docs: submitting-patches: clarify the role of LKML
authorHannu Hartikainen <hannu@hrtk.in>
Wed, 7 Jul 2021 13:36:35 +0000 (16:36 +0300)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 20:45:43 +0000 (14:45 -0600)
commit77167b966b7e671d8ab308b1e31ebfed97986402
tree5e5948eab645c01c29484a138d01a8c298988370
parentd5caec394a78617cbc0eea0870da22aa019c346d
docs: submitting-patches: clarify the role of LKML

The documentation previously stated that LKML should be used as *last
resort*. However, scripts/get_maintainer.pl always suggests it and in a
discussion about changing that[0] it turned out that LKML should in fact
receive all patches.

Update documentation to make it clear that all patches should be sent to
LKML by default, in addition to any subsystem-specific lists.

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/19a701a8d5837088aa7d8ba594c228c0e040e747.camel@perches.com/

Signed-off-by: Hannu Hartikainen <hannu@hrtk.in>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210707133634.286840-1-hannu@hrtk.in
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst