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Subject: Re: [PATCH docs v3] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 11:32:25AM -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.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>