[PATCH v3 12/13] MAINTAINERS: make clearer about what's expected for "P" field
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Sat May 09 2026 - 03:00:38 EST
The "P" field is meant to point to a subsystem maintainer's
profile, stored either at the Kernel documentation or on an
external site. Make it clearer.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <921e5e6a074f9d8cf77483d73e6801f49254bbb8.1777987027.git.mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
MAINTAINERS | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 2fb1c75afd16..77244b7f9545 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ Descriptions of section entries and preferred order
C: URI for *chat* protocol, server and channel where developers
usually hang out, for example irc://server/channel.
P: *Subsystem Profile* document for more details submitting
- patches to the given subsystem. This is either an in-tree file,
- or a URI. See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
- for details.
+ patches to the given subsystem. This is either an in-tree .rst file
+ inside Documentation/, or a URI.
+ See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst for details.
T: *SCM* tree type and location.
Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit, topgit
F: *Files* and directories wildcard patterns.
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