From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net, workflows@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux@leemhuis.info, broonie@kernel.org,
krzk@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH docs v2] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:34:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023071832-headstone-chafe-5be9@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230718155814.1674087-1-kuba@kernel.org>
On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 08:58:14AM -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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Looks good to me, thanks for writing this up:
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-18 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-18 15:58 [PATCH docs v2] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-18 16:55 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-07-18 17:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
2023-07-18 18:06 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-07-18 19:19 ` Benjamin Poirier
2023-07-18 19:55 ` Mark Brown
2023-07-19 18:26 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-18 22:02 ` Shannon Nelson
2023-07-19 7:27 ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-07-19 17:54 ` Rob Herring
2023-07-19 18:36 ` Jakub Kicinski
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