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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2026-05-09 08:56:45 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2026-05-15 08:01:48 -0600
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MAINTAINERS: make clearer about what's expected for "P" field
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@kernel.org> Message-ID: <921e5e6a074f9d8cf77483d73e6801f49254bbb8.1777987027.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <21e6def8b69bac36795dcd4047d663bb31407dcb.1778309595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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@@ -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.