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+From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
+Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer
+ preference tool
+Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:36 -0800
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+Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
+ Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>,
+ Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>,
+ Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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+To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
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+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.
+
+
+
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