For a bug in lib/vsprintf.c where should a patch be sent to ?

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Mon Jul 6 03:41:57 EDT 2020


On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 06:57:34AM +0530, Santosh Sivaraj wrote:
> William Tambe <tambewilliam at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 8:40 PM William Tambe <tambewilliam at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> For a bug in lib/vsprintf.c where should a patch be sent to ?
> >
> > The bug is in kernel/kallsyms.c instead.
> >
> > So for a bug in kernel/kallsyms.c, where should a patch be sent to ?
> >
> 
> You can use the 'get_maintainer.pl' script in the kernel tree to identify the
> list and maintainers.
> 
> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl kernel/kallsyms.c
> 
> 
> But in general you can send it to linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org.

If you only do that, it will be ignored, use the output of
get_maintainer.pl on your patch to get the proper list of people and
mailing lists.

thanks,

greg k-h



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