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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 90722c21f..8a3d31631 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