From eb5ed2fae19745fcb7dd0dcfbfbcd8b2847bc5c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Brown Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 13:33:33 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240905-documentation-b4-advert-v2-1-24d686ba4117@kernel.org --- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/process') 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 . This can +help with things like tracking dependencies, running checkpatch and +with formatting and sending mails. + References ---------- -- cgit