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From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 09:41:23PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > Pointing to an external document that is thousands of lines long,
> > talking about bootloaders, is NOT a good way to get people to want to
> > accept a kernel patch :)
> 
> Then how about just asking for that? "Hello submitter, please send a
> v2 with a detailed summary of the problem being solved for those of us
> who are not familiar with it, thank you"

That is what our documentation states that the submitter should have
already done:
	https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#describe-your-changes