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Commit e52d2e1f authored by Michel Machado's avatar Michel Machado Committed by Jiri Kosina
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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: default avatarMichel Machado <michel@digirati.com.br>
Acked-by: default avatarRob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
parent 9b170dbd

Documentation/SubmittingPatches

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@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ be able to justify all violations that remain in your patch. 


Look through the MAINTAINERS file and the source code, and determine

if your change applies to a specific subsystem of the kernel, with

an assigned maintainer.  If so, e-mail that person.

an assigned maintainer.  If so, e-mail that person.  The script

scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step.



If no maintainer is listed, or the maintainer does not respond, send

your patch to the primary Linux kernel developer's mailing list,