Em Tue, 03 Sep 2024 23:42:04 +0100 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > 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. > + > + No need for two blank lines (yeah, there's a mix on this file of using one or two blank lines for paragraphs). I would also add quick example(s) on how to use it for common workflows. > References > ---------- > > > --- > base-commit: 7c626ce4bae1ac14f60076d00eafe71af30450ba > change-id: 20240903-documentation-b4-advert-18016e83d7d9 > > Best regards, Thanks, Mauro
