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From:   Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>
To:     corbet@lwn.net, linux@leemhuis.info,
        konstantin@linuxfoundation.org, krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org,
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        Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3] Documentation/process: Add text to indicate supporters should be mailed
Date:   Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:46:29 +0100
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Recently when submitting a yaml change I found that I had omitted the
maintainer whose tree the change needed to go through.

The reason for that is the path in MAINTAINERS is marked as Supported not
Maintained. Reading MAINTAINERS we see quote:

           Supported:   Someone is actually paid to look after this.
           Maintained:  Someone actually looks after it.

The current submitting-patches.rst only says to mail maintainers though not
supporters. When we run scripts/get_maintainer.pl anybody who is denoted a
paid maintainer will appear as a supporter.

Add text to state that every mail address returned by get_maintainer.pl
--nogit-fallback should be included when submitting a patch, giving an
example of the same.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>
---
 Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index be49d8f2601b4..18a1f52e0563a 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -227,9 +227,15 @@ You should always copy the appropriate subsystem maintainer(s) on any patch
 to code that they maintain; look through the MAINTAINERS file 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
-maintainer for the subsystem you are working on, Andrew Morton
-(akpm@linux-foundation.org) serves as a maintainer of last resort.
+your patches as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl).  You should mail every
+email address returned by `scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit-fallback` when
+submitting a patch.
+For example::
+
+    $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit-fallback -f submitting-patches.rst
+    Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> (maintainer:DOCUMENTATION)
+    linux-doc@vger.kernel.org (open list:DOCUMENTATION)
+    linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
 
 You should also normally choose at least one mailing list to receive a copy
 of your patch set.  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org should be used by default
-- 
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