On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 08:50 -0800, trix@redhat.com wrote:
A difficult part of automating commits is composing the subsystem preamble in the commit log. For the ongoing effort of a fixer producing one or two fixes a release the use of 'treewide:' does not seem appropriate.
It would be better if the normal prefix was used. Unfortunately normal is not consistent across the tree.
D: Commit subsystem prefix
ex/ for FPGA DFL DRIVERS
D: fpga: dfl:
I've got to bet this is going to cause more issues than it solves. SCSI uses scsi: <driver>: for drivers but not every driver has a MAINTAINERS entry. We use either scsi: or scsi: core: for mid layer things, but we're not consistent. Block uses blk-<something>: for all of it's stuff but almost no <somtehing>s have a MAINTAINERS entry. So the next thing you're going to cause is an explosion of suggested MAINTAINERs entries.
Has anyone actually complained about treewide:?
James