On 9/3/24 16:36, Mark Brown wrote:
b4 is now widely used and is quite helpful for a lot of the things that
submitting-patches covers, let's advertise it to submitters to try to make
their lives easier and reduce the number of procedural issues maintainers
see.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index f310f2f36666..4b6904184ad1 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -842,6 +842,16 @@ Make sure that base commit is in an official maintainer/mainline tree
and not in some internal, accessible only to you tree - otherwise it
would be worthless.
+
+Tooling
+-------
+
+Many of the technical aspects of this process can be automated using
+b4, documented at <https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/>. This can
+help with things like tracking dependencies, running checkpatch and
+with formatting and sending mails.
+
+
References
----------
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base-commit: 7c626ce4bae1ac14f60076d00eafe71af30450ba
change-id: 20240903-documentation-b4-advert-18016e83d7d9
Best regards,
Looks good to me. Thanks for the update.
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
thanks,
-- Shuah
