From patchwork Fri Aug 7 17:01:55 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Joe Perches X-Patchwork-Id: 30946 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.ozlabs.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (verified OK)) by bilbo.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE83FB7B5C for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 03:02:49 +1000 (EST) Received: by ozlabs.org (Postfix) id B40AEDDD04; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 03:02:49 +1000 (EST) Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3777BDDD01 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 03:02:49 +1000 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754366AbZHGRCI (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:02:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754270AbZHGRCH (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:02:07 -0400 Received: from 136-022.dsl.LABridge.com ([206.117.136.22]:2083 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754229AbZHGRCF (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:02:05 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.158] (Joe-Laptop.home [192.168.1.158]) by mail.perches.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA31129; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:01:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] REPORTING-BUGS: Add get_maintainer.pl blurb From: Joe Perches To: David Miller Cc: sposelenov@emcraft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090807.090353.191304972.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090618183738.662f7ef1@emcraft.com> <20090807153106.335b1b8f@emcraft.com> <20090807.090353.191304972.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:01:55 -0700 Message-Id: <1249664515.3467.83.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Joe Perches --- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html diff --git a/REPORTING-BUGS b/REPORTING-BUGS index ab0c566..55a6074 100644 --- a/REPORTING-BUGS +++ b/REPORTING-BUGS @@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ worry too much about getting the wrong person. If you are unsure send it to the person responsible for the code relevant to what you were doing. If it occurs repeatably try and describe how to recreate it. That is worth even more than the oops itself. The list of maintainers and -mailing lists is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory. +mailing lists is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory. If you +know the file name that causes the problem you can use the following +command in this directory to find some of the maintainers of that file: + perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f If it is a security bug, please copy the Security Contact listed in the MAINTAINERS file. They can help coordinate bugfix and disclosure.