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Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Document purpose of defconfigs
authorKrzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:44:03 +0000 (09:44 +0200)
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:03:53 +0000 (17:03 +0200)
commit8b0beb45840ac40654100fd8497bd9dfd0d2a54c
tree227d2f12d026c0e9242347b4a37cd8516481fd22
parentf325b239a7bb42fc85c85b89c2c9b8e127410151
Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Document purpose of defconfigs

Common mistake in commit messages of patches on mailing list adding
CONFIG options to arm/multi_v7 or arm64/defconfig is saying what that
patch is doing, e.g. "Enable driver foo".  That is obvious from the diff
part, thus explaining it does not bring any value.  What brings value is
to understand why "driver foo" should be in a shared, upstream
defconfig, especially considering that distros have their own defconfigs
and we do not care about non-upstream trees.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260413074401.27282-4-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst