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REPORTING-BUGS: add get_maintainer.pl blurb
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reporting-bugs-add-get_maintainerpl-blurb.patch
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Subject: REPORTING-BUGS: add get_maintainer.pl blurb
From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
REPORTING-BUGS | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN REPORTING-BUGS~reporting-bugs-add-get_maintainerpl-blurb REPORTING-BUGS
--- a/REPORTING-BUGS~reporting-bugs-add-get_maintainerpl-blurb
+++ a/REPORTING-BUGS
@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ worry too much about getting the wrong p
to the person responsible for the code relevant to what you were doing.
If it occurs repeatably try and describe how to recreate it. That is
worth even more than the oops itself. The list of maintainers and
-mailing lists is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory.
+mailing lists is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory. If you
+know the file name that causes the problem you can use the following
+command in this directory to find some of the maintainers of that file:
+ perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f <filename>
If it is a security bug, please copy the Security Contact listed
in the MAINTAINERS file. They can help coordinate bugfix and disclosure.
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
maintainers-osd-library-and-filesystem-pattern-fix.patch
reporting-bugs-add-get_maintainerpl-blurb.patch
linux-next.patch
maintainers-add-ipvs-include-files.patch
scripts-get_maintainerpl-add-git-blame.patch
scripts-get_maintainerpl-add-sections-in-pattern-match-depth-order.patch
scripts-get_maintainerpl-add-pattern-depth.patch
scripts-get_maintainerpl-better-email-routines-use-perl-not-shell-where-possible.patch
scripts-get_maintainerpl-add-mailmap-use-shell-and-email-cleanups.patch
scripts-get_maintainerpl-using-separator-implies-nomultiline.patch
scripts-get_maintainerpl-add-remove-duplicates.patch
mmc-msm_sdccc-driver-for-htc-dream.patch
msm_sdccc-convert-printkkern_level-to-pr_level.patch
msm_sdccc-stylistic-cleaning.patch
msm_sdccc-move-overly-indented-code-to-separate-function.patch
maintainers-add-matt-mackall-and-herbert-xu-to-hardware-random-number-generator.patch
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