From: Jani Nikula Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:34:50 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Documentation: admin-guide: direct people to bug trackers, if specified X-Git-Tag: v6.12-rc1~173^2~25 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cd0403adeaf78b4506403cf75317cc4d97ba8b5e;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git Documentation: admin-guide: direct people to bug trackers, if specified Update bug reporting info in bug-hunting.rst to direct people to driver/subsystem bug trackers, if explicitly specified with the MAINTAINERS "B:" entry. Use the new get_maintainer.pl --bug option to print the info. Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240815113450.3397499-2-jani.nikula@intel.com --- diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst index 95299b08c405a..1d0f8ceb30754 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst @@ -244,14 +244,14 @@ Reporting the bug Once you find where the bug happened, by inspecting its location, you could either try to fix it yourself or report it upstream. -In order to report it upstream, you should identify the mailing list -used for the development of the affected code. This can be done by using -the ``get_maintainer.pl`` script. +In order to report it upstream, you should identify the bug tracker, if any, or +mailing list used for the development of the affected code. This can be done by +using the ``get_maintainer.pl`` script. For example, if you find a bug at the gspca's sonixj.c file, you can get its maintainers with:: - $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/media/usb/gspca/sonixj.c + $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --bug -f drivers/media/usb/gspca/sonixj.c Hans Verkuil (odd fixer:GSPCA USB WEBCAM DRIVER,commit_signer:1/1=100%) Mauro Carvalho Chehab (maintainer:MEDIA INPUT INFRASTRUCTURE (V4L/DVB),commit_signer:1/1=100%) Tejun Heo (commit_signer:1/1=100%) @@ -267,11 +267,12 @@ Please notice that it will point to: - The driver maintainer (Hans Verkuil); - The subsystem maintainer (Mauro Carvalho Chehab); - The driver and/or subsystem mailing list (linux-media@vger.kernel.org); -- the Linux Kernel mailing list (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org). +- The Linux Kernel mailing list (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org); +- The bug reporting URIs for the driver/subsystem (none in the above example). -Usually, the fastest way to have your bug fixed is to report it to mailing -list used for the development of the code (linux-media ML) copying the -driver maintainer (Hans). +If the listing contains bug reporting URIs at the end, please prefer them over +email. Otherwise, please report bugs to the mailing list used for the +development of the code (linux-media ML) copying the driver maintainer (Hans). If you are totally stumped as to whom to send the report, and ``get_maintainer.pl`` didn't provide you anything useful, send it to