Unverified Commit 6efe5322 authored by Krzysztof Kozlowski's avatar Krzysztof Kozlowski Committed by Arnd Bergmann
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Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Be more explicit about defconfig 



It is already documented but people still send noticeable amount of
patches ignoring the rule - get_maintainers.pl does not work on
arm64/configs/defconfig or any other shared ARM defconfig.

Be more explicit, that one must not rely on typical/simple approach
here for getting To/Cc list.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKrzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251223142726.73417-3-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
parent 902300d3

Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst

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All typical platform related patches should be sent via SoC submaintainers

(platform-specific maintainers).  This includes also changes to per-platform or

shared defconfigs (scripts/get_maintainer.pl might not provide correct

addresses in such case).

shared defconfigs. Note that scripts/get_maintainer.pl might not provide

correct addresses for the shared defconfig, so ignore its output and manually

create CC-list based on MAINTAINERS file or use something like

``scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/soc/FOO/``).



Submitting Patches to the Main SoC Maintainers

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~