docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4

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.

Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240905-documentation-b4-advert-v2-1-24d686ba4117@kernel.org

diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index f310f2f36666f29758fd083f7dd128cb08641afc..1518bd57adab501f7a7cf2fdfb9ac3f3a870766e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -842,6 +842,14 @@ 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 <https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/>. This can
+help with things like tracking dependencies, running checkpatch and
+with formatting and sending mails.
+
 References
 ----------