Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757164Ab0KPUmj (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:42:39 -0500 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:1476 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754409Ab0KPUmi (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:42:38 -0500 Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer preference tool From: Joe Perches To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Mark Brown , Florian Mickler , Jiri Kosina , Andrew Morton , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20101116122102.86e7e0b9.rdunlap@xenotime.net> References: <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> <20101116183707.179964dd@schatten.dmk.lab> <20101116181226.GB26239@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <20101116203522.65240b18@schatten.dmk.lab> <20101116195530.GA7523@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <20101116122102.86e7e0b9.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:36 -0800 Message-ID: <1289940156.28741.207.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1520 Lines: 56 On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 12:21 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:55:31 +0000 Mark Brown wrote: > I don't know what you asked Joe to change, but asking someone to use > the documented canonical patch format: > > The canonical patch subject line is: > Subject: [PATCH 001/123] subsystem: summary phrase > > should be fine. And there is no need for printf-ish templates > for this in MAINTAINERS either. I've never read that before. Learn something new etc... It seems path prefixes aren't good nor even commonly used. A review of kernel patch subjects: $ git log --no-merges --pretty=oneline | \ cut -f2- -d" " | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn is interesting. Here's the head: 5007 x86 3943 Staging 3220 USB 2790 sh 2707 KVM 2624 ARM 2449 ALSA 1571 Input 1549 ASoC 1470 iwlwifi 1423 ACPI 1397 mac80211 1384 V4L/DVB 1226 sched 1200 Btrfs 1184 powerpc 1106 [NETFILTER] 1080 MIPS 1049 net 1047 ide 1014 drm/i915 993 staging 921 ath9k Some subsystem maintainers like upper case, some mixed, some lower. Some aren't consistent. (Staging/staging) It doesn't seem a rule can be pregenerated so maybe adding these "C:" lines to MAINTAINERS has some value. -- 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/