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Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.128] ([38.175.170.29]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 8926c6da1cb9f-4ced2dcdf66sm2833926173.33.2024.09.03.16.06.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 17:06:04 -0600 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4 To: Mark Brown , Jonathan Corbet Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan References: <20240903-documentation-b4-advert-v1-1-fefda9564f6e@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Shuah Khan In-Reply-To: <20240903-documentation-b4-advert-v1-1-fefda9564f6e@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > --- > 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. > + > + > References > ---------- > > > --- > base-commit: 7c626ce4bae1ac14f60076d00eafe71af30450ba > change-id: 20240903-documentation-b4-advert-18016e83d7d9 > > Best regards, Looks good to me. Thanks for the update. Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan thanks, -- Shuah