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authorAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2026-01-14 15:20:46 -0800
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2026-01-14 15:22:01 -0800
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tree2792d41d5fe461217460b69d829b5392380272d2 /Documentation/process
parent46c76760febfb14618d88f6a01fca2d93d003082 (diff)
parentc537e12daeecaecdcd322c56a5f70659d2de7bde (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf after rc5
Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR. No conflicts. Adjacent: Auto-merging MAINTAINERS Auto-merging Makefile Auto-merging kernel/bpf/verifier.c Auto-merging kernel/sched/ext.c Auto-merging mm/memcontrol.c Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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@@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ Submitting Patches for Given SoC
All typical platform related patches should be sent via SoC submaintainers
(platform-specific maintainers). This includes also changes to per-platform or
-shared defconfigs (scripts/get_maintainer.pl might not provide correct
-addresses in such case).
+shared defconfigs. Note that scripts/get_maintainer.pl might not provide
+correct addresses for the shared defconfig, so ignore its output and manually
+create CC-list based on MAINTAINERS file or use something like
+``scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/soc/FOO/``).
Submitting Patches to the Main SoC Maintainers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -114,9 +116,9 @@ coordinating how the changes get merged through different maintainer trees.
Usually the branch that includes a driver change will also include the
corresponding change to the devicetree binding description, to ensure they are
in fact compatible. This means that the devicetree branch can end up causing
-warnings in the "make dtbs_check" step. If a devicetree change depends on
+warnings in the ``make dtbs_check`` step. If a devicetree change depends on
missing additions to a header file in include/dt-bindings/, it will fail the
-"make dtbs" step and not get merged.
+``make dtbs`` step and not get merged.
There are multiple ways to deal with this: