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@@ -79,8 +79,9 @@ simplistic idea of what C comment blocks look like. This problem had been
present since that comment was added in 2016 — a full four years. Fixing
it was a matter of adding the missing asterisks. A quick look at the
history for that file showed what the normal format for subject lines is,
-and ``scripts/get_maintainer.pl`` told me who should receive it. The
-resulting patch looked like this::
+and ``scripts/get_maintainer.pl`` told me who should receive it (pass paths to
+your patches as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl). The resulting patch
+looked like this::
[PATCH] PM / devfreq: Fix two malformed kerneldoc comments