Documentation/process: Add maintainer handbooks section

General rules for patch submission, coding style and related details are
available, but most subsystems have their subsystem-specific extra rules
which differ or go beyond the common rules.

Mark suggested to add a subsystem/maintainer handbook section, where
subsystem maintainers can explain their specific quirks.

Add the section and link to it from the submitting-patches document.

  [ bp: Add a SPDX identifier. ]

Suggested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171149.074948887@linutronix.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210913153942.15251-2-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Below are the essential guides that every developer should read.
submitting-patches
programming-language
coding-style
maintainer-handbooks
maintainer-pgp-guide
email-clients
kernel-enforcement-statement

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
.. _maintainer_handbooks_main:
Subsystem and maintainer tree specific development process notes
================================================================
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>`.
Contents:
.. toctree::
:numbered:
:maxdepth: 2

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@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ If you're unfamiliar with ``git``, you would be well-advised to learn how to
use it, it will make your life as a kernel developer and in general much
easier.
Some subsystems and maintainer trees have additional information about
their workflow and expectations, see :ref:`Documentation/process/maintainer
handbooks <maintainer_handbooks_main>`.
Obtain a current source tree
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