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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst index 95299b08c405..30858757c9f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ will see the assembler code for the routine shown, but if your kernel has debug symbols the C code will also be available. (Debug symbols can be enabled in the kernel hacking menu of the menu configuration.) For example:: - $ objdump -r -S -l --disassemble net/dccp/ipv4.o + $ objdump -r -S -l --disassemble net/ipv4/tcp.o .. note:: @@ -244,14 +244,14 @@ Reporting the bug Once you find where the bug happened, by inspecting its location, you could either try to fix it yourself or report it upstream. -In order to report it upstream, you should identify the mailing list -used for the development of the affected code. This can be done by using -the ``get_maintainer.pl`` script. +In order to report it upstream, you should identify the bug tracker, if any, or +mailing list used for the development of the affected code. This can be done by +using the ``get_maintainer.pl`` script. For example, if you find a bug at the gspca's sonixj.c file, you can get its maintainers with:: - $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/media/usb/gspca/sonixj.c + $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --bug -f drivers/media/usb/gspca/sonixj.c Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> (odd fixer:GSPCA USB WEBCAM DRIVER,commit_signer:1/1=100%) Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> (maintainer:MEDIA INPUT INFRASTRUCTURE (V4L/DVB),commit_signer:1/1=100%) Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> (commit_signer:1/1=100%) @@ -267,11 +267,12 @@ Please notice that it will point to: - The driver maintainer (Hans Verkuil); - The subsystem maintainer (Mauro Carvalho Chehab); - The driver and/or subsystem mailing list (linux-media@vger.kernel.org); -- the Linux Kernel mailing list (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org). +- The Linux Kernel mailing list (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org); +- The bug reporting URIs for the driver/subsystem (none in the above example). -Usually, the fastest way to have your bug fixed is to report it to mailing -list used for the development of the code (linux-media ML) copying the -driver maintainer (Hans). +If the listing contains bug reporting URIs at the end, please prefer them over +email. Otherwise, please report bugs to the mailing list used for the +development of the code (linux-media ML) copying the driver maintainer (Hans). If you are totally stumped as to whom to send the report, and ``get_maintainer.pl`` didn't provide you anything useful, send it to @@ -367,12 +368,3 @@ processed by ``klogd``:: Aug 29 09:51:01 blizard kernel: Call Trace: [oops:_oops_ioctl+48/80] [_sys_ioctl+254/272] [_system_call+82/128] Aug 29 09:51:01 blizard kernel: Code: c7 00 05 00 00 00 eb 08 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 89 ec 5d c3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -:: - - Dr. G.W. Wettstein Oncology Research Div. Computing Facility - Roger Maris Cancer Center INTERNET: greg@wind.rmcc.com - 820 4th St. N. - Fargo, ND 58122 - Phone: 701-234-7556 |