Commit 503f7944 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds
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REPORTING-BUGS: add get_maintainer.pl blurb 



Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 28d7a6ae

REPORTING-BUGS

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@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ worry too much about getting the wrong person. If you are unsure send it 
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.