Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:57:44 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/22] pci-dma-compat: Add pci_zalloc_consistent helper
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:51:51 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> > People sometimes address this by using
> > 
> > 	"drivers: net: ethernet: amd: use pci_zalloc_consistent"
> > 
> > which strikes me as utterly perverse.  We already have a nice way of
> > representing the hierarchy and that's using '/'.
> 
> I used to do that until several people complained.

Slap 'em.

I don't know where this thing is coming from - I'd suspected there must
be some misguided doc somewhere but I don't know where it is.  Some
vast conspiracy against common sense.

> Now I don't.  btw:  Documentation/SubmittingPatches says:
> 
> 15) The canonical patch format
> 
> The canonical patch subject line is:
> 
>     Subject: [PATCH 001/123] subsystem: summary phrase

Yes, that doesn't go into how to identify the subsystem.

I don't want to be overly proscriptive here, but it's a bit maddening
when you're skimming patch titles and cannot work out which part of the
kernel is being patched :(
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