17 Oct
2013
17 Oct
'13
6:46 p.m.
Applied, thanks. Please use subject lines appropriate to the subsystem.
That's quite a nut to crack with a generated patch series running over the whole tree. I wonder if it is really worth the effort?
I think it's probably worth the effort to add something to put rules for these things in MAINTAINERS, it'd cover 90% of cases. If you're sending only one of a big series with a subject line that won't pattern match that's a good way to get stuff dropped on the floor.
On the other hand, MAINTAINERS information gets overlooked and/or could get stale. Thinking about it again, it is probably less work (at least for me with i2c) to create a git-hook fixing the subject line than to always nag people.