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authorKrzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>2022-04-27 20:56:45 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2022-05-09 16:12:16 -0600
commitf1a693994b1c340ceb982cf1da467da0e545e36d (patch)
tree6d170bbe371480a08f40ca7a1d5a8f1f285048fd /Documentation/doc-guide
parent0327b8b392377f6ae45d6cd0d5c8f32f9174552b (diff)
Documentation/process: use scripts/get_maintainer.pl on patches
Explain that, when collecting list of people to Cc the patch, scripts/get_maintainer.pl should be used on patches, not on the directories. The behavior is quite different, because with "-f" on a directory, the maintainers of individual files will not be shown. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220427185645.677039-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst
index 207fd93d7c80..d4793826ad9a 100644
--- a/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst
+++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst
@@ -79,8 +79,9 @@ simplistic idea of what C comment blocks look like. This problem had been
present since that comment was added in 2016 — a full four years. Fixing
it was a matter of adding the missing asterisks. A quick look at the
history for that file showed what the normal format for subject lines is,
-and ``scripts/get_maintainer.pl`` told me who should receive it. The
-resulting patch looked like this::
+and ``scripts/get_maintainer.pl`` told me who should receive it (pass paths to
+your patches as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl). The resulting patch
+looked like this::
[PATCH] PM / devfreq: Fix two malformed kerneldoc comments