From: Mark Brown Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 12:33:33 +0000 (+0100) Subject: docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eb5ed2fae197;p=users%2Fdwmw2%2Flinux.git 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 Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 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 f310f2f36666f..1518bd57adab5 100644 --- 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 . This can +help with things like tracking dependencies, running checkpatch and +with formatting and sending mails. + References ----------