From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757304AbcIGTrx (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2016 15:47:53 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0033.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.33]:51270 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757118AbcIGTrp (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2016 15:47:45 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:973:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2198:2199:2393:2553:2559:2562:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3873:3874:4250:4321:5007:6119:6120:7522:8957:10004:10400:10848:11232:11639:11658:11914:12043:12555:12740:13069:13311:13357:13439:14659:14777:21080:30021:30054:30090:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:1,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: linen54_606e39fcae643 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2324 Message-ID: <1473277661.29864.25.camel@perches.com> Subject: rfc: Updating SubmittingPatches with [RFC PATCH] and/or [WIP PATCH] From: Joe Perches To: Lee Jones Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , lkml , Jonathan Corbet Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 12:47:41 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20160907163854.GE4921@dell> References: <20160906154530.GW4921@dell> <20160906162807.GA1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20160907102737.GX4921@dell> <20160907112702.GM1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20160907124818.GZ4921@dell> <20160907134441.GN1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20160907150846.GA4921@dell> <20160907160733.GO1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20160907162713.GC4921@dell> <1473265954.29864.15.camel@perches.com> <20160907163854.GE4921@dell> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.21.91-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 17:38 +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > On Wed, 07 Sep 2016, Joe Perches wrote: [] > > And another patch series prefix that could be used > > instead of RFC is WIP. > Certainly sounds reasonable. Is there a difference in the meaning? Request for Comment and Work In Progress differences: Maybe add something like this to Documentation/SubmittingPatches --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 8c79f1d..aa76057 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -404,6 +404,12 @@ convention to prefix your subject line with [PATCH]. This and other kernel developers more easily distinguish patches from other e-mail discussions. +If the patch or patch series is just a proposal to garner comments +use [RFC PATCH] before each patch subject. + +If the patch or patch seriies is incomplete or possibly contains known +defects and you would like others to see the work to date use +[WIP PATCH] before each patch subject. 11) Sign your work