In the part of the documentation explaining about identifying maintainers mention the `scripts/git-send-email.sh` helper script. Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst index a1cb6280fbcf..039deed14c49 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -225,7 +225,10 @@ Select the recipients for your patch ------------------------------------ You should always copy the appropriate subsystem maintainer(s) on any patch -to code that they maintain; look through the MAINTAINERS file and the +to code that they maintain. A helper script is available in +./scripts/git-send-email.sh that can be used with git-send-email to automatically +findd the appropriate recipients for a patch. +Alternatively you may look through the MAINTAINERS file manually and the source code revision history to see who those maintainers are. The script scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step (pass paths to your patches as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl). If you cannot find a -- 2.25.1
