Documentation: riscv: add patch acceptance guidelines
authorPaul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 02:33:28 +0000 (18:33 -0800)
committerPaul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Sun, 5 Jan 2020 05:49:01 +0000 (21:49 -0800)
commit0e194d9da198936fe4fb4c1e031de0f7791c09b8
treed607b71145f4d02830fc961ea839990de46fc9e0
parent2f3035da4019780250658d1ffe486bc324e04805
Documentation: riscv: add patch acceptance guidelines

Formalize, in kernel documentation, the patch acceptance policy for
arch/riscv.  In summary, it states that as maintainers, we plan to
only accept patches for new modules or extensions that have been
frozen or ratified by the RISC-V Foundation.

We've been following these guidelines for the past few months.  In the
meantime, we've received quite a bit of feedback that it would be
helpful to have these guidelines formally documented.

Based on a suggestion from Matthew Wilcox, we also add a link to this
file to Documentation/process/index.rst, to make this document easier
to find.  The format of this document has also been changed to align
to the format outlined in the maintainer entry profiles, in accordance
with comments from Jon Corbet and Dan Williams.

Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Krste Asanovic <krste@berkeley.edu>
Cc: Andrew Waterman <waterman@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/process/index.rst
Documentation/riscv/index.rst
Documentation/riscv/patch-acceptance.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
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