Re: [PATCH docs v3] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers

From: Simon Horman
Date: Fri Jul 21 2023 - 04:38:22 EST


On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 11:32:25AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> We appear to have a gap in our process docs. We go into detail
> on how to contribute code to the kernel, and how to be a subsystem
> maintainer. I can't find any docs directed towards the thousands
> of small scale maintainers, like folks maintaining a single driver
> or a single network protocol.
>
> Document our expectations and best practices. I'm hoping this doc
> will be particularly useful to set expectations with HW vendors.
>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>