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   1 From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
   2 Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem
   3  maintainer preference tool
   4 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:46:09 -0800
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  24 Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>,
  25         Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
  26         linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>,
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  73 On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:36 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
  74
  75 > On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 12:21 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
  76 > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:55:31 +0000 Mark Brown wrote:
  77 > > I don't know what you asked Joe to change, but asking someone to use
  78 > > the documented canonical patch format:
  79 > > <quote>
  80 > > The canonical patch subject line is:
  81 > >     Subject: [PATCH 001/123] subsystem: summary phrase
  82 > > </quote>
  83 > > should be fine.  And there is no need for printf-ish templates
  84 > > for this in MAINTAINERS either.
  85 >
  86 > I've never read that before.  Learn something new etc...
  87 > It seems path prefixes aren't good nor even commonly used.
  88 >
  89 > A review of kernel patch subjects:
  90 >
  91 > $ git log --no-merges --pretty=oneline | \
  92 >       cut -f2- -d" " | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
  93 >
  94 > is interesting.  Here's the head:
  95 >    5007 x86
  96 >    3943 Staging
  97 >    3220 USB
  98 >    2790 sh
  99 >    2707 KVM
 100 >    2624 ARM
 101 >    2449 ALSA
 102 >    1571 Input
 103 >    1549 ASoC
 104 >    1470 iwlwifi
 105 >    1423 ACPI
 106 >    1397 mac80211
 107 >    1384 V4L/DVB
 108 >    1226 sched
 109 >    1200 Btrfs
 110 >    1184 powerpc
 111 >    1106 [NETFILTER]
 112 >    1080 MIPS
 113 >    1049 net
 114 >    1047 ide
 115 >    1014 drm/i915
 116 >     993 staging
 117 >     921 ath9k
 118
 119 $ARCH is a commonly accepted substitute for subsystem.
 120
 121 And yes, lots of people use <drivername> there as well.
 122
 123
 124 > Some subsystem maintainers like upper case, some mixed, some lower.
 125 > Some aren't consistent.  (Staging/staging)
 126
 127 Case usually doesn't matter to most of us.
 128
 129 > It doesn't seem a rule can be pregenerated so maybe adding these
 130 > "C:" lines to MAINTAINERS has some value.
 131
 132 Hopefully it won't go that far.
 133
 134 ---
 135 ~Randy
 136 *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***
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