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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 90722c21f..646b6e733 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -101,8 +101,13 @@ send it "To:" the mailing list, and optionally "cc:" him.  If it
 is trivially correct or after the list reached a consensus, send
 it "To:" the maintainer and optionally "cc:" the list.
 
+Also note that your maintainer does not actively involve himself in
+maintaining what are in contrib/ hierarchy.  When you send fixes and
+enhancements to them, do not forget to "cc: " the person who primarily
+worked on that hierarchy in contrib/.
 
-(6) Sign your work
+
+(4) Sign your work
 
 To improve tracking of who did what, we've borrowed the
 "sign-off" procedure from the Linux kernel project on patches
@@ -144,6 +149,9 @@ then you just add a line saying
 
 	Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
 
+This line can be automatically added by git if you run the git-commit
+command with the -s option.
+
 Some people also put extra tags at the end.  They'll just be ignored for
 now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just
 point out some special detail about the sign-off.