On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 10:16:31AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> This actually sounds like a good idea. Someone just told me that they found
> a bug in a driver and I asked them if they notified upstream about it. They
> said no, because they didn't know how.

> I just told them to randomly modify the file, do a git diff and redirect it
> into another file (making a random patch), and run get_maintainers.pl on
> it. That's a big hack and having a better interface to point others too
> would be useful.

./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --file is a bit more direct there.