On Thu, 2024-08-15 at 14:34 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > 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:: Please use examples with and without B: entries. > > - $ ./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). I think that's quite poorly described as it could ignore any other reporter/developer or person that introduced the defect.
