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 <[email protected]> --- 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
