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 49E1BEB64DD for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:07:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230148AbjGRSG6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:06:58 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:45692 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232064AbjGRSG6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:06:58 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4641:c500::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE2591B5; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:06:56 -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 7DD73616AC; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9EE3CC433C7; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:06:52 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1689703615; bh=88mOW/Jxt3hWqsKWEzcfOJPc4T/peV4NshcYKjzQeRk=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:From; b=tRIRNV9xuItBjPLIPo5eYoGYUpetQN69SoaS11o/Trrpq+PNH3zu98+n12K66NRXl y0Hrs1r5XJkJ0DURie+rFr/KCZKHzCFS2/e5J7JIT5eobHLVBO28Pq6Cc563b66Rfh i5nZs4KbH66LYayy6xhq8lLxAalXJ4FpUIzsiKmAARnYdovH0ezvgwaJpwsS4HsgVD 3HlmmPQR00WxAaXPb3TBvSqfpiQ1irDh9F4spvq8yl7kOmazHllO7Hz5SbH2AYFUIa BTJAKgHBoEw1NPOG7Fd5lS7oJHbJaCgegvmC1JJ2/9H4aAXpXCX4eBSnJ98ROAfJ+9 RRN81ukzNNhrA== Message-ID: <8331449d-6b25-7ea0-4c28-9128ab483fba@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:06:48 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH docs v2] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers Content-Language: en-US To: Jakub Kicinski , corbet@lwn.net Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux@leemhuis.info, broonie@kernel.org References: <20230718155814.1674087-1-kuba@kernel.org> From: Krzysztof Kozlowski In-Reply-To: <20230718155814.1674087-1-kuba@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org On 18/07/2023 17:58, 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 Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Best regards, Krzysztof