Select the recipients for your patch
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-You should always copy the appropriate subsystem maintainer(s) on any patch
-to code that they maintain; look through the MAINTAINERS file and the
-source code revision history to see who those maintainers are. The
-script scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step (pass paths to
-your patches as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl). If you cannot find a
+You should always copy the appropriate subsystem maintainer(s) and list(s) on
+any patch to code that they maintain; look through the MAINTAINERS file and the
+source code revision history to see who those maintainers are. The script
+scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step (pass paths to your
+patches as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl). If you cannot find a
maintainer for the subsystem you are working on, Andrew Morton
(akpm@linux-foundation.org) serves as a maintainer of last resort.
-You should also normally choose at least one mailing list to receive a copy
-of your patch set. linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org should be used by default
-for all patches, but the volume on that list has caused a number of
-developers to tune it out. Look in the MAINTAINERS file for a
-subsystem-specific list; your patch will probably get more attention there.
-Please do not spam unrelated lists, though.
+linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org should be used by default for all patches, but the
+volume on that list has caused a number of developers to tune it out. Please
+do not spam unrelated lists and unrelated people, though.
Many kernel-related lists are hosted on vger.kernel.org; you can find a
list of them at http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html. There are
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