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| author | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2024-09-05 14:33:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2024-09-05 20:02:45 +0200 |
| commit | eb5ed2fae19745fcb7dd0dcfbfbcd8b2847bc5c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 59fb8b02457b818ac6d7f3116d0b184dcceab31e /Documentation/process | |
| parent | docs: update dev-tools/kcsan.rst url about KTSAN (diff) | |
| download | linux-eb5ed2fae19745fcb7dd0dcfbfbcd8b2847bc5c1.tar.xz linux-eb5ed2fae19745fcb7dd0dcfbfbcd8b2847bc5c1.zip | |
docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4
b4 is now widely used and is quite helpful for a lot of the things that
submitting-patches covers, let's advertise it to submitters to try to make
their lives easier and reduce the number of procedural issues maintainers
see.
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240905-documentation-b4-advert-v2-1-24d686ba4117@kernel.org
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst index f310f2f36666..1518bd57adab 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -842,6 +842,14 @@ Make sure that base commit is in an official maintainer/mainline tree and not in some internal, accessible only to you tree - otherwise it would be worthless. +Tooling +------- + +Many of the technical aspects of this process can be automated using +b4, documented at <https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/>. This can +help with things like tracking dependencies, running checkpatch and +with formatting and sending mails. + References ---------- |