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

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Message-ID: <20251223142726.73417-3-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:27:27 +0100
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@....qualcomm.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Drew Fustini <fustini@...nel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, soc@...ts.linux.dev,
        workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@....qualcomm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Be more explicit about defconfig

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@....qualcomm.com>

---

Incorrectly addressed patches for arm64/defconfig are around ~2 per month...
---
 Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
index 3ba886f52a51..014c639022b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
@@ -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
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- 
2.51.0