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| author | Michel Machado <michel@digirati.com.br> | 2012-04-02 22:10:53 -0400 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-05-25 10:18:30 -0400 |
| commit | e52d2e1f25f03edf7628fae219150d8dc5023081 (patch) | |
| tree | c1594e04583cd79518c48955ceedc85ac1ceba67 /Documentation | |
| parent | 9b170dbd82448826ca3b8b6ee47daf36c4f438f3 (diff) | |
Documentation/SubmittingPatches: suggested the use of scripts/get_maintainer.pl
Had I found a reference to scripts/get_maintainer.pl when I first read
Documentation/SubmittingPatches, it would've saved me some time.
Signed-off-by: Michel Machado <michel@digirati.com.br>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 4468ce24427c..c379a2a6949f 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches | |||
| @@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ be able to justify all violations that remain in your patch. | |||
| 150 | 150 | ||
| 151 | Look through the MAINTAINERS file and the source code, and determine | 151 | Look through the MAINTAINERS file and the source code, and determine |
| 152 | if your change applies to a specific subsystem of the kernel, with | 152 | if your change applies to a specific subsystem of the kernel, with |
| 153 | an assigned maintainer. If so, e-mail that person. | 153 | an assigned maintainer. If so, e-mail that person. The script |
| 154 | scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step. | ||
| 154 | 155 | ||
| 155 | If no maintainer is listed, or the maintainer does not respond, send | 156 | If no maintainer is listed, or the maintainer does not respond, send |
| 156 | your patch to the primary Linux kernel developer's mailing list, | 157 | your patch to the primary Linux kernel developer's mailing list, |