diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
index 12637530d68f..fe9d8bcfbd2b 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
@@ -30,10 +30,13 @@ tree as a dedicated branch covering multiple subsystems.
 The main SoC tree is housed on git.kernel.org:
   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc.git/
 
+Maintainers
+-----------
+
 Clearly this is quite a wide range of topics, which no one person, or even
 small group of people are capable of maintaining.  Instead, the SoC subsystem
-is comprised of many submaintainers, each taking care of individual platforms
-and driver subdirectories.
+is comprised of many submaintainers (platform maintainers), each taking care of
+individual platforms and driver subdirectories.
 In this regard, "platform" usually refers to a series of SoCs from a given
 vendor, for example, Nvidia's series of Tegra SoCs.  Many submaintainers operate
 on a vendor level, responsible for multiple product lines.  For several reasons,
@@ -43,14 +46,43 @@ MAINTAINERS file.
 
 Most of these submaintainers have their own trees where they stage patches,
 sending pull requests to the main SoC tree.  These trees are usually, but not
-always, listed in MAINTAINERS.  The main SoC maintainers can be reached via the
-alias soc@kernel.org if there is no platform-specific maintainer, or if they
-are unresponsive.
+always, listed in MAINTAINERS.
 
 What the SoC tree is not, however, is a location for architecture-specific code
 changes.  Each architecture has its own maintainers that are responsible for
 architectural details, CPU errata and the like.
 
+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).
+
+Submitting Patches to the Main SoC Maintainers
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The main SoC maintainers can be reached via the alias soc@kernel.org only in
+following cases:
+
+1. There are no platform-specific maintainers.
+
+2. Platform-specific maintainers are unresponsive.
+
+3. Introducing a completely new SoC platform.  Such new SoC work should be sent
+   first to common mailing lists, pointed out by scripts/get_maintainer.pl, for
+   community review.  After positive community review, work should be sent to
+   soc@kernel.org in one patchset containing new arch/foo/Kconfig entry, DTS
+   files, MAINTAINERS file entry and optionally initial drivers with their
+   Devicetree bindings.  The MAINTAINERS file entry should list new
+   platform-specific maintainers, who are going to be responsible for handling
+   patches for the platform from now on.
+
+Note that the soc@kernel.org is usually not the place to discuss the patches,
+thus work sent to this address should be already considered as acceptable by
+the community.
+
 Information for (new) Submaintainers
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