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Subject[PATCH 2/2] Documentation: Add a blurb about using scripts/git-send-email.sh
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In the part of the documentation explaining about identifying maintainers
mention the `scripts/git-send-email.sh` helper script.

Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
---
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index a1cb6280fbcf..039deed14c49 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -225,7 +225,10 @@ Select the recipients for your patch
------------------------------------

You should always copy the appropriate subsystem maintainer(s) on any patch
-to code that they maintain; look through the MAINTAINERS file and the
+to code that they maintain. A helper script is available in
+./scripts/git-send-email.sh that can be used with git-send-email to automatically
+findd the appropriate recipients for a patch.
+Alternatively you may look through the MAINTAINERS file manually and the
source code revision history to see who those maintainers are. The
script scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step (pass paths to
your patches as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl). If you cannot find a
--
2.25.1
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