diff --git a/tools/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/tools/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index bc6b60173..7a30ae7e3 100755
--- a/tools/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/tools/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3332,7 +3332,8 @@ sub process {
 $vname has style problems, please review.
 
 If any of these errors are false positives, please report
-them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
+them to the openocd-devel mailing list or prepare a patch
+and send it to Gerrit for review.
 EOM
 	}