From: Michel Machado Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 02:10:53 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Documentation/SubmittingPatches: suggested the use of scripts/get_maintainer.pl X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e52d2e1f25f03edf7628fae219150d8dc5023081;p=linux-beck.git 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 Acked-by: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- 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. 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,