Documentation/process: Add maintainer handbooks section

General rules for patch submission, coding style and related details are
available, but most subsystems have their subsystem-specific extra rules
which differ or go beyond the common rules.

Mark suggested to add a subsystem/maintainer handbook section, where
subsystem maintainers can explain their specific quirks.

Add the section and link to it from the submitting-patches document.

  [ bp: Add a SPDX identifier. ]

Suggested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171149.074948887@linutronix.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210913153942.15251-2-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index 8ad6b93f91e6..f5ae1efd8cb6 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ If you're unfamiliar with ``git``, you would be well-advised to learn how to
 use it, it will make your life as a kernel developer and in general much
 easier.
 
+Some subsystems and maintainer trees have additional information about
+their workflow and expectations, see :ref:`Documentation/process/maintainer
+handbooks <maintainer_handbooks_main>`.
+
 Obtain a current source tree
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