b4 is now widely used and is quite helpful for a lot of the things that submitting-patches covers, let's advertise it to submitters to try to make their lives easier and reduce the number of procedural issues maintainers see.
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| 842 | 842 | and not in some internal, accessible only to you tree - otherwise it |
| 843 | 843 | would be worthless. |
| 844 | 844 | |
| 845 | +Tooling | |
| 846 | +------- | |
| 847 | + | |
| 848 | +Many of the technical aspects of this process can be automated using | |
| 849 | +b4, documented at <https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/>. This can | |
| 850 | +help with things like tracking dependencies, running checkpatch and | |
| 851 | +with formatting and sending mails. | |
| 852 | + | |
| 845 | 853 | References |
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