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 6345716403 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9EE3CC433C7; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:06:52 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1689703615; bh=88mOW/Jxt3hWqsKWEzcfOJPc4T/peV4NshcYKjzQeRk=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:From; b=tRIRNV9xuItBjPLIPo5eYoGYUpetQN69SoaS11o/Trrpq+PNH3zu98+n12K66NRXl y0Hrs1r5XJkJ0DURie+rFr/KCZKHzCFS2/e5J7JIT5eobHLVBO28Pq6Cc563b66Rfh i5nZs4KbH66LYayy6xhq8lLxAalXJ4FpUIzsiKmAARnYdovH0ezvgwaJpwsS4HsgVD 3HlmmPQR00WxAaXPb3TBvSqfpiQ1irDh9F4spvq8yl7kOmazHllO7Hz5SbH2AYFUIa BTJAKgHBoEw1NPOG7Fd5lS7oJHbJaCgegvmC1JJ2/9H4aAXpXCX4eBSnJ98ROAfJ+9 RRN81ukzNNhrA== Message-ID: <8331449d-6b25-7ea0-4c28-9128ab483fba@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:06:48 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH docs v2] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers Content-Language: en-US To: Jakub Kicinski , corbet@lwn.net Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux@leemhuis.info, broonie@kernel.org References: <20230718155814.1674087-1-kuba@kernel.org> From: Krzysztof Kozlowski In-Reply-To: <20230718155814.1674087-1-kuba@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 18/07/2023 17:58, 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 Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Best regards, Krzysztof