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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 5:42=E2=80=AFPM Sasha Levin wrot= e: > > We already have something like this in Documentation/process/howto.rst: > > "Before making any actual modifications to the Linux kernel code, it i= s > imperative to understand how the code in question works." The patch already mentions something similar as well: Ensure that you understand your entire submission and are prepared to respond to review comments. And then talks about the maintainers discretion and rejecting etc. at the bullet list at the bottom, so it seems fairly clear to me, i.e. that patches may get "rejected outright" if one cannot explain the submitted series. Cheers, Miguel