On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 15:25, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH] video: backlight: adp8870: Fix warn_unused_result warning reported by Stephen Rothwell
>
> Lots of people are doing this "video: backlight: adp8870:" thing
> lately. And it's good, but why not just use
> "drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c" to identify the affected
> susbsytem/file/etc? It's simple and uniform. It's not always the
> appropriate thing to do, but replacing the /'s with ": " seems rather
> random and pointless.
the colons and spaces make it a lot easier to pick out in a git log.
your suggestion makes it much harder to read due to the lack of
whitespace.
-mike