Commit 3ab32df72bfa7bee9126cc5b1abc037aef124f15

Authored by J. Bruce Fields
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent 9b8eae7248

REPORTING-BUGS: cc the mailing list too

People should also cc relevant mailing lists when reporting bugs.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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10 10 to make it useful to the recipient.
11 11  
12 12 Send the output to the maintainer of the kernel area that seems to
13   -be involved with the problem. Don't worry too much about getting the
14   -wrong person. If you are unsure send it to the person responsible for the
15   -code relevant to what you were doing. If it occurs repeatably try and
16   -describe how to recreate it. That is worth even more than the oops itself.
17   -The list of maintainers is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory.
  13 +be involved with the problem, and cc the relevant mailing list. Don't
  14 +worry too much about getting the wrong person. If you are unsure send it
  15 +to the person responsible for the code relevant to what you were doing.
  16 +If it occurs repeatably try and describe how to recreate it. That is
  17 +worth even more than the oops itself. The list of maintainers and
  18 +mailing lists is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory.
18 19  
19 20 If it is a security bug, please copy the Security Contact listed
20 21 in the MAINTAINERS file. They can help coordinate bugfix and disclosure.