1 From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2 Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer
4 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:57:55 -0800
6 Message-ID: <1289951875.28741.261.camel@Joe-Laptop>
7 References: <1289850773.16461.166.camel@Joe-Laptop>
8 <20101116104921.GL12986@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main>
9 <1289919077.28741.50.camel@Joe-Laptop>
10 <20101116183707.179964dd@schatten.dmk.lab>
11 <20101116181226.GB26239@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main>
12 <20101116203522.65240b18@schatten.dmk.lab>
13 <20101116195530.GA7523@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main>
14 <20101116122102.86e7e0b9.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
15 <1289940156.28741.207.camel@Joe-Laptop>
16 <20101116124609.382e42fb.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
17 <20101116232258.GC24623@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
18 <20101116152835.b0ab571c.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
21 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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>
28 X-From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 17 00:58:26 2010
29 Return-path: <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org>
30 Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@lo.gmane.org
31 Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67])
32 by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69)
33 (envelope-from <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org>)
35 for glk-linux-kernel-3@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:58:23 +0100
36 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
37 id S1757099Ab0KPX56 (ORCPT <rfc822;glk-linux-kernel-3@m.gmane.org>);
38 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:57:58 -0500
39 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:1485 "EHLO mail.perches.com"
40 rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP
41 id S1751238Ab0KPX55 (ORCPT <rfc822;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>);
42 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:57:57 -0500
43 Received: from [192.168.1.162] (unknown [192.168.1.162])
44 by mail.perches.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B3A24368;
45 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:55:38 -0800 (PST)
46 In-Reply-To: <20101116152835.b0ab571c.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
47 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3
48 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
50 List-ID: <linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org>
51 X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
52 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1063505>
54 On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 15:28 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
55 > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:22:58 +0000 Mark Brown wrote:
56 > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:46:09PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
57 > > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:36 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
58 > > > > Some subsystem maintainers like upper case, some mixed, some lower.
59 > > > > Some aren't consistent. (Staging/staging)
60 > > > Case usually doesn't matter to most of us.
61 > > Given that we're working in case sensitive languages here it's probably
62 > > safe to assume that a reasonable proportion of people will care; being
63 > > reasonably consistent with existing practice for the subsystem seems
65 > Greg takes patches that say STAGING or Staging or staging.
67 Greg seems to rewrite patch subjects and is inconsistent
68 about case, so he might be doing that by hand.
70 > DaveM takes patches that say net: or netdev: or network: or NET:
72 DaveM doesn't appear to be choosy about patch subject lines.
73 He seems to take any sensible patch and as far as I know he
74 doesn't edit the subject lines. He does reject inferior
77 > The sound maintainers take patches that say sound: or alsa: or ALSA:
79 The sound maintainers seem to rewrite patch subjects on an