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MAINTAINERS: make clearer about what's expected for "P" field
authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Sat, 9 May 2026 06:56:45 +0000 (08:56 +0200)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fri, 15 May 2026 14:01:48 +0000 (08:01 -0600)
The "P" field is meant to point to a subsystem maintainer's
profile, stored either at the Kernel documentation or on an
external site. Make it clearer.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <921e5e6a074f9d8cf77483d73e6801f49254bbb8.1777987027.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <21e6def8b69bac36795dcd4047d663bb31407dcb.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

MAINTAINERS

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@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ Descriptions of section entries and preferred order
        C: URI for *chat* protocol, server and channel where developers
           usually hang out, for example irc://server/channel.
        P: *Subsystem Profile* document for more details submitting
-          patches to the given subsystem. This is either an in-tree file,
-          or a URI. See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
-          for details.
+          patches to the given subsystem. This is either an in-tree .rst file
+       inside Documentation/, or a URI.
+       See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst for details.
        T: *SCM* tree type and location.
           Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit, topgit
        F: *Files* and directories wildcard patterns.