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| author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2008-02-07 03:13:40 -0500 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-07 11:42:17 -0500 |
| commit | 3ab32df72bfa7bee9126cc5b1abc037aef124f15 (patch) | |
| tree | 6237f92ea14275754e3ad697ce8382baccaa88e7 /REPORTING-BUGS | |
| parent | 9b8eae7248dad42091204f83ed3448e661456af1 (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'REPORTING-BUGS')
| -rw-r--r-- | REPORTING-BUGS | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/REPORTING-BUGS b/REPORTING-BUGS index ac02e42a2627..ab0c56630a8c 100644 --- a/REPORTING-BUGS +++ b/REPORTING-BUGS | |||
| @@ -10,11 +10,12 @@ bug report. This explains what you should do with the "Oops" information | |||
| 10 | to make it useful to the recipient. | 10 | to make it useful to the recipient. |
| 11 | 11 | ||
| 12 | Send the output to the maintainer of the kernel area that seems to | 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 | 13 | be involved with the problem, and cc the relevant mailing list. Don't |
| 14 | wrong person. If you are unsure send it to the person responsible for the | 14 | worry too much about getting the wrong person. If you are unsure send it |
| 15 | code relevant to what you were doing. If it occurs repeatably try and | 15 | to the person responsible for the code relevant to what you were doing. |
| 16 | describe how to recreate it. That is worth even more than the oops itself. | 16 | If it occurs repeatably try and describe how to recreate it. That is |
| 17 | The list of maintainers is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory. | 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 | If it is a security bug, please copy the Security Contact listed | 20 | If it is a security bug, please copy the Security Contact listed |
| 20 | in the MAINTAINERS file. They can help coordinate bugfix and disclosure. | 21 | in the MAINTAINERS file. They can help coordinate bugfix and disclosure. |
