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Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Be more explicit about defconfig

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It is already documented but people still send noticeable amount of
patches ignoring the rule - get_maintainers.pl does not work on
arm64/configs/defconfig or any other shared ARM defconfig.

Be more explicit, that one must not rely on typical/simple approach
here for getting To/Cc list.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251223142726.73417-3-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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@@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ Submitting Patches for Given SoC
All typical platform related patches should be sent via SoC submaintainers
(platform-specific maintainers). This includes also changes to per-platform or
shared defconfigs (scripts/get_maintainer.pl might not provide correct
addresses in such case).
shared defconfigs. Note that scripts/get_maintainer.pl might not provide
correct addresses for the shared defconfig, so ignore its output and manually
create CC-list based on MAINTAINERS file or use something like
``scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/soc/FOO/``).
Submitting Patches to the Main SoC Maintainers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~