From: Krzysztof Kozlowski Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:27:27 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Be more explicit about defconfig X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6efe5322f060099c8bc51aaee83b857394e42dd5;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git 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 Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251223142726.73417-3-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann --- diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst index 3ba886f52a51..014c639022b2 100644 --- 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~