Documentation / process / maintainer-handbooks.rst


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Subsystem and maintainer tree specific development process notes
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The purpose of this document is to provide subsystem specific information
which is supplementary to the general development process handbook
:ref:`Documentation/process <development_process_main>`.

For developers, see below for all the known subsystem specific guides.
If the subsystem you are contributing to does not have a guide listed
here, it is fair to seek clarification of questions raised in
Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst.

For maintainers, consider documenting additional requirements and
expectations if submissions routinely overlook specific submission
criteria. See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst.

.. maintainers-profile-toc::