linux-kernel - [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4

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Message-Id: <20240903-documentation-b4-advert-v1-1-c89d6f5db7b1@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 23:42:04 +0100
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>, 
 workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4

b4 is now widely used and is quite helpful for a lot of the things that
submitting-patches covers, let's advertise it to submitters to try to make
their lives easier and reduce the number of procedural issues maintainers
see.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
---
 Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index f310f2f36666..4b6904184ad1 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -842,6 +842,16 @@ Make sure that base commit is in an official maintainer/mainline tree
 and not in some internal, accessible only to you tree - otherwise it
 would be worthless.
 
+
+Tooling
+-------
+
+Many of the technical aspects of this process can be automated using
+b4, documented at <https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/>. This can
+help with things like tracking dependencies, running checkpatch and
+with formatting and sending mails.
+
+
 References
 ----------
 

---
base-commit: 7c626ce4bae1ac14f60076d00eafe71af30450ba
change-id: 20240903-documentation-b4-advert-18016e83d7d9

Best regards,
-- 
Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>