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docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4

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.

Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240905-documentation-b4-advert-v2-1-24d686ba4117@kernel.org

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Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
··· 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 846 854 ---------- 847 855