How to find the right person for help.

Introduction#

This should mirror some of the official Linux kernel docs, and post links to the latest versions of said documents in tovalds/linux on GitHub.com. The idea is to encourage individuals to make use of the MAINTAINERS files, linux-kernel mailing list, git log, and scripts/get-maintainer, so that they are familiar with the commonly-used ways of identifying a key point of contact.

Find the “likely” maintainers for the FTDI USB serial converter

First, determine the source file for this particular driver. Found it at drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c.

./scripts/get_maintainer.pl drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c 

And the results:

Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> (maintainer:USB SERIAL SUBSYSTEM)
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> (supporter:USB SUBSYSTEM)
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org (open list:USB SERIAL SUBSYSTEM)
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)

Now we know who to ping for help with this particular driver, and which e-mail addresses should be CC’ed when submitting a patch against this driver.