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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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REPORTING-BUGS
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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. |