From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31BEA4776E; Wed, 4 Sep 2024 02:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1725417896; cv=none; b=O8wZt0PDNWI/hBrSREjPOrZD0d2QzwJONAf1CCUKO1dIUyN148wQ0BX28p8iyI3jW0dRiVifaFimLgWqY7NOEOlQkREg1ejEQFMk1sHQk/DR5G5CLS/r9cz/sdJqKMWDtudqV8BkgGqPGcWLZVrsg7p/wXduF9livs2eXWB0gto= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1725417896; c=relaxed/simple; bh=fogaHN6CdraCTRrLn2ZBcDH/1HrT2GkkyolQ0HFX2y8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=jrMbpwrYdaOdgz0tpRVdqbNUi9G1IU8VdEwhZgs7pUQyv4+D3G2pRVi/ptN63ATUMkrpTzVFlqG2PKWgq8w3Nke19shIpJb0HiBbCjat2Qif5JsukwtDrMBE4jAhMaXtvJzQaXAF+96dxfoygETE9qseLKKitya7eRfm3dQB8qU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=Qa9fJ624; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Qa9fJ624" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4D099C4CEC4; Wed, 4 Sep 2024 02:44:54 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1725417895; bh=fogaHN6CdraCTRrLn2ZBcDH/1HrT2GkkyolQ0HFX2y8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=Qa9fJ624Gk6q+EjFrmYrV3XNJB2+gocAFRpoa7IqCDl0ONsHEZFMYai0KE0ny51Hs s/Wf5lMWF6LD9Swe+Fv7X7lw9Qc4Cagg2avCCrb9O5rbbj0JKORJeTh7TRmia3iCIT gcOJWZShZEkoNzUhJvkGy28hHJmhybCO4mfXTC2G4fgUJSjPPhW3Ku+Sgy85EfgSK7 bWMmBlDia34SNrh5ggoZVYsDkJ+bixmoBy1EDmrYjf4zhVlgCW1Ryiy2tboWeBr12C DxQMjuF2GlokUqgukcyUMdTfBPYCy5WxZZeUSaU4rr8ZDG4woXOIxJCq377DojUUNK p7WSVUUPGQA4Q== Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 04:44:51 +0200 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Mark Brown Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Konstantin Ryabitsev , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4 Message-ID: <20240904044443.309aabb1@foz.lan> In-Reply-To: <20240903-documentation-b4-advert-v1-1-c89d6f5db7b1@kernel.org> References: <20240903-documentation-b4-advert-v1-1-c89d6f5db7b1@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.43; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Em Tue, 03 Sep 2024 23:42:04 +0100 Mark Brown 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 > --- > 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 . 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