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

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski

Date: Tue Dec 23 2025 - 09:27:33 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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