Had I found a reference to scripts/get_maintainer.pl when I first read Documentation/SubmittingPatches, it would've saved me some time. Signed-off-by: Michel Machado <michel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 4468ce2..c379a2a 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ be able to justify all violations that remain in your patch. Look through the MAINTAINERS file and the source code, and determine if your change applies to a specific subsystem of the kernel, with -an assigned maintainer. If so, e-mail that person. +an assigned maintainer. If so, e-mail that person. The script +scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step. If no maintainer is listed, or the maintainer does not respond, send your patch to the primary Linux kernel developer's mailing list, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
