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Documentation/process: always CC responsible lists
The "Select the recipients for your patch" part about CC-ing mailing lists is a bit vague and might be understood that only some lists should be Cc-ed. That's not what most of the maintainers expect. For given code, associated mailing list must always be CC-ed, because the list is used for reviewing and testing patches. Example are the Devicetree bindings patches, which are tested iff Devicetree mailing list is CC-ed. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230413165501.47442-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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You should always copy the appropriate subsystem maintainer(s) on any patch
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to code that they maintain; look through the MAINTAINERS file and the
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source code revision history to see who those maintainers are. The
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script scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step (pass paths to
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your patches as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl). If you cannot find a
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You should always copy the appropriate subsystem maintainer(s) and list(s) on
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any patch to code that they maintain; look through the MAINTAINERS file and the
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source code revision history to see who those maintainers are. The script
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scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step (pass paths to your
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patches as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl). If you cannot find a
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maintainer for the subsystem you are working on, Andrew Morton
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(akpm@linux-foundation.org) serves as a maintainer of last resort.
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You should also normally choose at least one mailing list to receive a copy
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of your patch set. linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org should be used by default
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for all patches, but the volume on that list has caused a number of
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developers to tune it out. Look in the MAINTAINERS file for a
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subsystem-specific list; your patch will probably get more attention there.
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Please do not spam unrelated lists, though.
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linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org should be used by default for all patches, but the
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volume on that list has caused a number of developers to tune it out. Please
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do not spam unrelated lists and unrelated people, though.
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Many kernel-related lists are hosted on vger.kernel.org; you can find a
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list of them at http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html. There are

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