1 From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2 Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer
4 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:57:57 -0800
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21 Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
22 Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>,
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53 On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 23:22 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
54 > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:46:09PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
55 > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:36 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
56 > > > Some subsystem maintainers like upper case, some mixed, some lower.
57 > > > Some aren't consistent. (Staging/staging)
58 > > Case usually doesn't matter to most of us.
59 > Given that we're working in case sensitive languages here it's probably
60 > safe to assume that a reasonable proportion of people will care; being
61 > reasonably consistent with existing practice for the subsystem seems
64 Presumably the tool would also have to traverse up the tree
65 to find the appropriate style so every MAINTAINERS section
66 would not need a C entry.
68 ie: sound/soc/codecs/foo could use the C: entry for sound/soc/
70 Perhaps something like: