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

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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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@ -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