[PATCH 5/9] patman: Replace the documentation with a stub

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 08:28:45AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:

> The full patman manual now lives with the standalone patch-manager
> package, making the 1000-line copy in the tree redundant. Its published
> page is a long-standing URL, though, so removing it outright would break
> existing links.
> 
> Replace the in-tree manual with a short stub that points readers at the
> patch-manager package, and keep the toctree entry so the page still
> builds. Drop the README and the tool's own rst, and point the
> patch-sending docs at the standalone package too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
> 
>  doc/develop/driver-model/spi-howto.rst |    5 +-
>  doc/develop/patman.rst                 |   15 +-
>  doc/develop/sending_patches.rst        |    4 +-
>  tools/patman/README.rst                |    1 -
>  tools/patman/patman.rst                | 1023 ------------------------
>  5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1028 deletions(-)
>  mode change 120000 => 100644 doc/develop/patman.rst
>  delete mode 120000 tools/patman/README.rst
>  delete mode 100644 tools/patman/patman.rst

We shouldn't keep a stub here, and instead just have a short blurb about
patman that follows after the b4 blurb in doc/develop/codingstyle.rst.
And that's indeed an odd location, so if you want to first move b4 to
sending_patches.rst and then have a patman blub, that would be good too.

-- 
Tom
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