Re: slowly decommission bugzilla? (was: Re: kernel.org tooling update)

Steven Rostedt
2026-02-27T15:45:04Z

On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:18:10 +0000
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, I always forget that it can handle files. I only run it on
patches. I was also using it as a way to get someone used to making
patches ;-)

-- Steve