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: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251223142726.73417-3-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
index 3ba886f52a51d1085a5432f730fbe131e1942636..014c639022b2d677e8aa8aaf6ff9e25fcad5fbfe 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
@@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ Submitting Patches for Given SoC
 
 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
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~