Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758920Ab0KPPEz (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:04:55 -0500 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:35636 "EHLO opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755966Ab0KPPEy (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:04:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:04:51 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: Joe Perches Cc: Jiri Kosina , Andrew Morton , Florian Mickler , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer preference tool Message-ID: <20101116150451.GA26239@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> References: <20101115173031.GI12986@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <1289842444.16461.140.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101115182708.GJ12986@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <1289845830.16461.149.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101115190738.GF3338@sirena.org.uk> <1289848458.16461.150.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101115193407.GK12986@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <1289850773.16461.166.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101116104921.GL12986@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <1289919077.28741.50.camel@Joe-Laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1289919077.28741.50.camel@Joe-Laptop> X-Cookie: Onward through the fog. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 773 Lines: 20 On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:51:17AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > Maybe add a new MAINTAINERS section line something like: > "C: CommitSubjectGrammarStyle" > where CommitSubjectGrammarStyle is something more > information rich than "style 1", "style 2". Something printfish would seem reasonable? > Also, what would you expect the output to be when a single > patch modified files from 2 subsystems that use different > styles? The traditional thing is "ThingX/ThingY: blah" but as with anything else you need to be sensible. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/