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
Some subsystem maintainers like upper case, some mixed, some lower. Some aren't consistent. (Staging/staging)
It doesn't seem a rule can be pregenerated so maybe adding these "C:" lines to MAINTAINERS has some value.