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3 Documentation subsystem maintainer entry profile
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6 The documentation "subsystem" is the central coordinating point for the
7 kernel's documentation and associated infrastructure. It covers the
8 hierarchy under Documentation/ (with the exception of
9 Documentation/devicetree), various utilities under scripts/ and, at least
10 some of the time, LICENSES/.
12 It's worth noting, though, that the boundaries of this subsystem are rather
13 fuzzier than normal. Many other subsystem maintainers like to keep control
14 of portions of Documentation/, and many more freely apply changes there
15 when it is convenient. Beyond that, much of the kernel's documentation is
16 found in the source as kerneldoc comments; those are usually (but not
17 always) maintained by the relevant subsystem maintainer.
19 The mailing list for documentation is linux-doc@vger.kernel.org. Patches
20 should be made against the docs-next tree whenever possible.
22 Submit checklist addendum
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25 When making documentation changes, you should actually build the
26 documentation and ensure that no new errors or warnings have been
27 introduced. Generating HTML documents and looking at the result will help
28 to avoid unsightly misunderstandings about how things will be rendered.
33 Patches can be sent anytime, but response will be slower than usual during
34 the merge window. The docs tree tends to close late before the merge
35 window opens, since the risk of regressions from documentation patches is
41 I am the sole maintainer for the documentation subsystem, and I am doing
42 the work on my own time, so the response to patches will occasionally be
43 slow. I try to always send out a notification when a patch is merged (or
44 when I decide that one cannot be). Do not hesitate to send a ping if you
45 have not heard back within a week of sending a patch.