[PATCH RFC 4/4] docs: auto-generate maintainer entry profile links

Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-04-14T14:29:20Z

Instead of manually creating a TOC tree for them, use the new
tag to auto-generate its TOC.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
---
.../maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst | 17 ++---------------
Documentation/process/maintainer-handbooks.rst | 10 +---------
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst b/Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
index 6020d188e13d..48ecabd4ce13 100644
--- a/Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
+++ b/Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
@@ -98,18 +98,5 @@ Existing profiles
For now, existing maintainer profiles are listed here; we will likely want
to do something different in the near future.

-.. toctree::
- :maxdepth: 1
-
- ../doc-guide/maintainer-profile
- ../nvdimm/maintainer-entry-profile
- ../arch/riscv/patch-acceptance
- ../process/maintainer-soc
- ../process/maintainer-soc-clean-dts
- ../driver-api/media/maintainer-entry-profile
- ../process/maintainer-netdev
- ../driver-api/vfio-pci-device-specific-driver-acceptance
- ../nvme/feature-and-quirk-policy
- ../filesystems/nfs/nfsd-maintainer-entry-profile
- ../filesystems/xfs/xfs-maintainer-entry-profile
- ../mm/damon/maintainer-profile
+See Documentation/process/maintainer-handbooks.rst for subsystem-specific
+profiles.
diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-handbooks.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-handbooks.rst
index 3d72ad25fc6a..d3d74c719018 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-handbooks.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-handbooks.rst
@@ -9,12 +9,4 @@ which is supplementary to the general development process handbook

Contents:

-.. toctree::
- :numbered:
- :maxdepth: 2
-
- maintainer-netdev
- maintainer-soc
- maintainer-soc-clean-dts
- maintainer-tip
- maintainer-kvm-x86
+.. maintainers-profile-toc::
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