1 From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2 Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer
4 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:36 -0800
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22 Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
23 Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>,
24 Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>,
25 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
26 alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
27 To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
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54 On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 12:21 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
55 > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:55:31 +0000 Mark Brown wrote:
56 > I don't know what you asked Joe to change, but asking someone to use
57 > the documented canonical patch format:
59 > The canonical patch subject line is:
60 > Subject: [PATCH 001/123] subsystem: summary phrase
62 > should be fine. And there is no need for printf-ish templates
63 > for this in MAINTAINERS either.
65 I've never read that before. Learn something new etc...
66 It seems path prefixes aren't good nor even commonly used.
68 A review of kernel patch subjects:
70 $ git log --no-merges --pretty=oneline | \
71 cut -f2- -d" " | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
73 is interesting. Here's the head:
98 Some subsystem maintainers like upper case, some mixed, some lower.
99 Some aren't consistent. (Staging/staging)
101 It doesn't seem a rule can be pregenerated so maybe adding these
102 "C:" lines to MAINTAINERS has some value.