REPORTING-BUGS: add get_maintainer.pl blurb

[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / REPORTING-BUGS

diff --git a/REPORTING-BUGS b/REPORTING-BUGS
index ab0c56630a8cb5924813a196b1b2be763f51d5b6..55a6074ccbb715d99b642fa510d3c993121f453d 100644 (file)
--- a/REPORTING-BUGS
+++ b/REPORTING-BUGS
@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ worry too much about getting the wrong person. If you are unsure send it
 to the person responsible for the code relevant to what you were doing.
 If it occurs repeatably try and describe how to recreate it. That is
 worth even more than the oops itself.  The list of maintainers and
-mailing lists is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory.
+mailing lists is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory.  If you
+know the file name that causes the problem you can use the following
+command in this directory to find some of the maintainers of that file:
+     perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f <filename>
 
       If it is a security bug, please copy the Security Contact listed
 in the MAINTAINERS file.  They can help coordinate bugfix and disclosure.