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docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4

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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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@ -842,6 +842,14 @@ Make sure that base commit is in an official maintainer/mainline tree
and not in some internal, accessible only to you tree - otherwise it
would be worthless.
Tooling
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Many of the technical aspects of this process can be automated using
b4, documented at <https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/>. This can
help with things like tracking dependencies, running checkpatch and
with formatting and sending mails.
References
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