Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756509Ab0KPXuV (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:50:21 -0500 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:41166 "EHLO opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755793Ab0KPXuU (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:50:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:50:26 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Joe Perches , Florian Mickler , Jiri Kosina , Andrew Morton , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer preference tool Message-ID: <20101116235025.GA7256@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <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> <1289940156.28741.207.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101116124609.382e42fb.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20101116232258.GC24623@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20101116152835.b0ab571c.rdunlap@xenotime.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101116152835.b0ab571c.rdunlap@xenotime.net> X-Cookie: You enjoy the company of other people. 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: 1185 Lines: 28 On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 03:28:35PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:22:58 +0000 Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:46:09PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > Case usually doesn't matter to most of us. > > Given that we're working in case sensitive languages here it's probably > > safe to assume that a reasonable proportion of people will care; being > > reasonably consistent with existing practice for the subsystem seems > > sensible. > Greg takes patches that say STAGING or Staging or staging. > DaveM takes patches that say net: or netdev: or network: or NET: > The sound maintainers take patches that say sound: or alsa: or ALSA: > etc. ...and best practice would be to pay attention to what the standard thing is for the subsystem and follow that. We shouldn't be suggesting that people just ignore the case, though obviously if it's not clear then it's not worth worrying too much about it. -- 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/