From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34FCEB64DD for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:34:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232302AbjGRRey (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:34:54 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:57756 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230215AbjGRRex (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:34:53 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1354D91; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 10:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A50AB616A0; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:34:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D933C433C8; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:34:51 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1689701692; bh=gRqK4YQ9SwmOtiWj1frwDfFvpy6S6QoNvpMI5EL4rP4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=uKdno7EYrnRrGF6BIgpk6wjGWU5SJFWTnoWdbXbJqtegpdQhERHFWu/+CmJ6V31I6 ZTFvr4dy4oZ8UQjpG4TANXYe+0M6fyGPQeYsaKTnErBBelTlVsLIzGyANsRY/a8Y5c V4ng2bwJrRBuehzaCh/I2Lzvwkdy26E2cC1A/hBk= Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:34:49 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: corbet@lwn.net, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux@leemhuis.info, broonie@kernel.org, krzk@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH docs v2] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers Message-ID: <2023071832-headstone-chafe-5be9@gregkh> References: <20230718155814.1674087-1-kuba@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20230718155814.1674087-1-kuba@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 08:58:14AM -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. > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Looks good to me, thanks for writing this up: Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman