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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem
maintainer preference tool
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:46:09 -0800
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Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>,
Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:36 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
> 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:
> > <quote>
> > The canonical patch subject line is:
> > Subject: [PATCH 001/123] subsystem: summary phrase
> > </quote>
> > 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
$ARCH is a commonly accepted substitute for subsystem.
And yes, lots of people use <drivername> there as well.
> Some subsystem maintainers like upper case, some mixed, some lower.
> Some aren't consistent. (Staging/staging)
Case usually doesn't matter to most of us.
> It doesn't seem a rule can be pregenerated so maybe adding these
> "C:" lines to MAINTAINERS has some value.
Hopefully it won't go that far.
---
~Randy
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