On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 08:28:45AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > The full patman manual now lives with the standalone patch-manager > package, making the 1000-line copy in the tree redundant. Its published > page is a long-standing URL, though, so removing it outright would break > existing links. > > Replace the in-tree manual with a short stub that points readers at the > patch-manager package, and keep the toctree entry so the page still > builds. Drop the README and the tool's own rst, and point the > patch-sending docs at the standalone package too. > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]> > --- > > doc/develop/driver-model/spi-howto.rst | 5 +- > doc/develop/patman.rst | 15 +- > doc/develop/sending_patches.rst | 4 +- > tools/patman/README.rst | 1 - > tools/patman/patman.rst | 1023 ------------------------ > 5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1028 deletions(-) > mode change 120000 => 100644 doc/develop/patman.rst > delete mode 120000 tools/patman/README.rst > delete mode 100644 tools/patman/patman.rst
We shouldn't keep a stub here, and instead just have a short blurb about patman that follows after the b4 blurb in doc/develop/codingstyle.rst. And that's indeed an odd location, so if you want to first move b4 to sending_patches.rst and then have a patman blub, that would be good too. -- Tom
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