Beginner Linux kernel maintainers toolbox
summary
Practical checklist: add your maintainer tree to linux-next so bots and community CI (LKP, ukci, lkft) actually build and test patches before merge, use b4 to fetch series, apply patches, and send templated thank you emails while detecting newer revisions, sign tags and pushes and publish your key to kernel.org so the transparency log shows signed tags and pushes, install commit hooks that run verify-signoff and verify-fixes to avoid common errors, and replace mailing list subscriptions with a public-inbox/lei/lore workflow for searchable, scriptable archives.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Who is the speaker
- 1:46Linux next integration tree
- 5:55Adding to Linux next
- 8:22Testing with lkp
- 11:51Applying patches with B4
- 15:42Sending thank you emails
- 16:25Sign off and fixes tags
- 19:52Git commit hooks
- 20:57Kernel.org repository
- 22:00Transparency log
- 24:50PGP keys for maintainers
- 26:59Signing PGP keys
- 29:16Damping the mailing list
- 33:11Q&A session
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