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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2009-08-19 01:11:18 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-08-19 03:31:13 +0400
commit503f7944fac68f4fdf71f8ebd06907f51eb64515 (patch)
treecf624d071415a075056c0a3bc8bb94a26fbea893 /REPORTING-BUGS
parent28d7a6ae92c099d81cbea08c20be0d2cf7ccd7ca (diff)
downloadlinux-503f7944fac68f4fdf71f8ebd06907f51eb64515.tar.xz
REPORTING-BUGS: add get_maintainer.pl blurb
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -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 <filename>
If it is a security bug, please copy the Security Contact listed
in the MAINTAINERS file. They can help coordinate bugfix and disclosure.