Update bug reporting info in bug-hunting.rst to direct people to driver/subsystem bug trackers, if explicitly specified with the MAINTAINERS "B:" entry. Use the new get_maintainer.pl --bug option to print the info. Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst index 95299b08c405..1d0f8ceb3075 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst @@ -244,14 +244,14 @@ Reporting the bug Once you find where the bug happened, by inspecting its location, you could either try to fix it yourself or report it upstream. -In order to report it upstream, you should identify the mailing list -used for the development of the affected code. This can be done by using -the ``get_maintainer.pl`` script. +In order to report it upstream, you should identify the bug tracker, if any, or +mailing list used for the development of the affected code. This can be done by +using the ``get_maintainer.pl`` script. For example, if you find a bug at the gspca's sonixj.c file, you can get its maintainers with:: - $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/media/usb/gspca/sonixj.c + $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --bug -f drivers/media/usb/gspca/sonixj.c Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> (odd fixer:GSPCA USB WEBCAM DRIVER,commit_signer:1/1=100%) Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:MEDIA INPUT INFRASTRUCTURE (V4L/DVB),commit_signer:1/1=100%) Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:1/1=100%) @@ -267,11 +267,12 @@ Please notice that it will point to: - The driver maintainer (Hans Verkuil); - The subsystem maintainer (Mauro Carvalho Chehab); - The driver and/or subsystem mailing list (linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx); -- the Linux Kernel mailing list (linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). +- The Linux Kernel mailing list (linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx); +- The bug reporting URIs for the driver/subsystem (none in the above example). -Usually, the fastest way to have your bug fixed is to report it to mailing -list used for the development of the code (linux-media ML) copying the -driver maintainer (Hans). +If the listing contains bug reporting URIs at the end, please prefer them over +email. Otherwise, please report bugs to the mailing list used for the +development of the code (linux-media ML) copying the driver maintainer (Hans). If you are totally stumped as to whom to send the report, and ``get_maintainer.pl`` didn't provide you anything useful, send it to -- 2.39.2
