Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752996Ab2JBMde (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 08:33:34 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:33963 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752386Ab2JBMdc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 08:33:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20121002121443.GT4587@mwanda> References: <1349179024-5319-1-git-send-email-peter.senna@gmail.com> <20121002121443.GT4587@mwanda> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:33:31 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname From: Peter Senna Tschudin To: Dan Carpenter Cc: joe@perches.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, davem@davemloft.net, arnd@arndb.de, elezegarcia@gmail.com, Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1457 Lines: 39 On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 01:57:04PM +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: >> The shortname for a subsystem, that is primarly used when sending patches over E-mail, is not stored anywhere in the source code. Actually one need to dig git log or mailing list archives. There is no standard, and the Maintainer choose how to short name his/her subsystem. MAINTAINERS file is the right place for storing this information. >> >> U is the second letter of Subsystem. >> >> This will also enable automatic tools like scripts/get_maintainer.pl to provide the correct short name for each filename in the Kernel source tree. >> > > This is pretty useless without a script to parse it. Also none of With or without a script, there is no default way of finding the short name. Changing scripts/get_maintainer.pl to do it does not seems very complex. > subsystem names you chose as examples are correct. Please line wrap See? It's not easy to find three examples to put on the text. Can you please provide three examples? > your commit message at 72 characters. Yes. I'll fix it. Thank you, Peter > > regards, > dan carpenter > -- Peter -- 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/