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Documentation: admin-guide: direct people to bug trackers, if specified

Update bug reporting info in bug-hunting.rst to direct people to
driver/subsystem bug trackers, if explicitly specified with the
MAINTAINERS "B:" entry. Use the new get_maintainer.pl --bug option to
print the info.

Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240815113450.3397499-2-jani.nikula@intel.com

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Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst
··· 244 244 Once you find where the bug happened, by inspecting its location, 245 245 you could either try to fix it yourself or report it upstream. 246 246 247 - In order to report it upstream, you should identify the mailing list 248 - used for the development of the affected code. This can be done by using 249 - the ``get_maintainer.pl`` script. 247 + In order to report it upstream, you should identify the bug tracker, if any, or 248 + mailing list used for the development of the affected code. This can be done by 249 + using the ``get_maintainer.pl`` script. 250 250 251 251 For example, if you find a bug at the gspca's sonixj.c file, you can get 252 252 its maintainers with:: 253 253 254 - $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/media/usb/gspca/sonixj.c 254 + $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --bug -f drivers/media/usb/gspca/sonixj.c 255 255 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> (odd fixer:GSPCA USB WEBCAM DRIVER,commit_signer:1/1=100%) 256 256 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> (maintainer:MEDIA INPUT INFRASTRUCTURE (V4L/DVB),commit_signer:1/1=100%) 257 257 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> (commit_signer:1/1=100%) ··· 267 267 - The driver maintainer (Hans Verkuil); 268 268 - The subsystem maintainer (Mauro Carvalho Chehab); 269 269 - The driver and/or subsystem mailing list (linux-media@vger.kernel.org); 270 - - the Linux Kernel mailing list (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org). 270 + - The Linux Kernel mailing list (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org); 271 + - The bug reporting URIs for the driver/subsystem (none in the above example). 271 272 272 - Usually, the fastest way to have your bug fixed is to report it to mailing 273 - list used for the development of the code (linux-media ML) copying the 274 - driver maintainer (Hans). 273 + If the listing contains bug reporting URIs at the end, please prefer them over 274 + email. Otherwise, please report bugs to the mailing list used for the 275 + development of the code (linux-media ML) copying the driver maintainer (Hans). 275 276 276 277 If you are totally stumped as to whom to send the report, and 277 278 ``get_maintainer.pl`` didn't provide you anything useful, send it to