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Documentation/process: always CC responsible lists

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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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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