When merging patches in a submodule tracked (through the submodule subscription mechanism) by a super-project, the generated patch should follow the review process.
The behavior may be configurable.
My point here is that CI tools are not always able to check all the branches of the super project when a change occurs, as a consequence the automatically generated update commit can break some branches of the super project. If the update patches could go through the review process we would be able to avoid bad surprises.