[PATCH 1/2] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Be more explicit about defconfig

Linus Walleij linusw at kernel.org
Thu Jan 1 14:33:25 PST 2026


On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski at oss.qualcomm.com> wrote:

> It is already documented but people still send noticeable amount of
> patches ignoring the rule - get_maintainers.pl does not work on
> arm64/configs/defconfig or any other shared ARM defconfig.
>
> Be more explicit, that one must not rely on typical/simple approach
> here for getting To/Cc list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at oss.qualcomm.com>

Despite the complaints that the patch does not fix the problem
there is nothing wrong with the patch.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw at kernel.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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