From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8BF7F134BD for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:34:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D933C433C8; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:34:51 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1689701692; bh=gRqK4YQ9SwmOtiWj1frwDfFvpy6S6QoNvpMI5EL4rP4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=uKdno7EYrnRrGF6BIgpk6wjGWU5SJFWTnoWdbXbJqtegpdQhERHFWu/+CmJ6V31I6 ZTFvr4dy4oZ8UQjpG4TANXYe+0M6fyGPQeYsaKTnErBBelTlVsLIzGyANsRY/a8Y5c V4ng2bwJrRBuehzaCh/I2Lzvwkdy26E2cC1A/hBk= Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:34:49 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Jakub Kicinski 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 Message-ID: <2023071832-headstone-chafe-5be9@gregkh> References: <20230718155814.1674087-1-kuba@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 Looks good to me, thanks for writing this up: Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman