Commit 503f7944fac68f4fdf71f8ebd06907f51eb64515

Authored by Joe Perches
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent 28d7a6ae92

REPORTING-BUGS: add get_maintainer.pl blurb

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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15 15 to the person responsible for the code relevant to what you were doing.
16 16 If it occurs repeatably try and describe how to recreate it. That is
17 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 +mailing lists is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory. If you
  19 +know the file name that causes the problem you can use the following
  20 +command in this directory to find some of the maintainers of that file:
  21 + perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f <filename>
19 22  
20 23 If it is a security bug, please copy the Security Contact listed
21 24 in the MAINTAINERS file. They can help coordinate bugfix and disclosure.