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| author | Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> | 2022-04-27 21:56:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2022-05-10 01:12:16 +0300 |
| commit | f1a693994b1c340ceb982cf1da467da0e545e36d (patch) | |
| tree | 6d170bbe371480a08f40ca7a1d5a8f1f285048fd /Documentation/doc-guide | |
| parent | 0327b8b392377f6ae45d6cd0d5c8f32f9174552b (diff) | |
| download | linux-f1a693994b1c340ceb982cf1da467da0e545e36d.tar.xz | |
Documentation/process: use scripts/get_maintainer.pl on patches
Explain that, when collecting list of people to Cc the patch,
scripts/get_maintainer.pl should be used on patches, not on the
directories. The behavior is quite different, because with "-f" on
a directory, the maintainers of individual files will not be shown.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220427185645.677039-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/doc-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst index 207fd93d7c80..d4793826ad9a 100644 --- a/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst +++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst @@ -79,8 +79,9 @@ simplistic idea of what C comment blocks look like. This problem had been present since that comment was added in 2016 — a full four years. Fixing it was a matter of adding the missing asterisks. A quick look at the history for that file showed what the normal format for subject lines is, -and ``scripts/get_maintainer.pl`` told me who should receive it. The -resulting patch looked like this:: +and ``scripts/get_maintainer.pl`` told me who should receive it (pass paths to +your patches as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl). The resulting patch +looked like this:: [PATCH] PM / devfreq: Fix two malformed kerneldoc comments |