Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/process: Add a maintainer entry profile for KVM/arm64

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 02:17:11 EST


On 30/10/2026 09:33, Matthias Goergens wrote:
> +
> +If your series depends on something else that is not yet in mainline, such as
> +another series under review, say so in the cover letter and name exactly what
> +it applies on top of.
> +
> +Use ``git format-patch --base`` so that the base commit is recorded in the
> +patches.

You should rather encourage usage of b4, which does above for you.

...

> +
> +Security issues
> +---------------
> +
> +Bugs that let a guest attack its host, or a nested guest attack its guest
> +hypervisor, should be reported as described in
> +Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst.

Do we need to repeat standard stuff in every maintainer profile? Above
is quite obvious, so maybe skip it which would make the document shorter
increasing the chances anyone will read it.

Best regards,
Krzysztof