From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Cc: joe@perches.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, davem@davemloft.net,
arnd@arndb.de, elezegarcia@gmail.com, Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:14:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121002121443.GT4587@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349179024-5319-1-git-send-email-peter.senna@gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 01:57:04PM +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> The shortname for a subsystem, that is primarly used when sending patches over E-mail, is not stored anywhere in the source code. Actually one need to dig git log or mailing list archives. There is no standard, and the Maintainer choose how to short name his/her subsystem. MAINTAINERS file is the right place for storing this information.
>
> U is the second letter of Subsystem.
>
> This will also enable automatic tools like scripts/get_maintainer.pl to provide the correct short name for each filename in the Kernel source tree.
>
This is pretty useless without a script to parse it. Also none of
subsystem names you chose as examples are correct. Please line wrap
your commit message at 72 characters.
regards,
dan carpenter
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Cc: joe@perches.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, davem@davemloft.net,
arnd@arndb.de, elezegarcia@gmail.com, Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:14:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121002121443.GT4587@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349179024-5319-1-git-send-email-peter.senna@gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 01:57:04PM +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> The shortname for a subsystem, that is primarly used when sending patches over E-mail, is not stored anywhere in the source code. Actually one need to dig git log or mailing list archives. There is no standard, and the Maintainer choose how to short name his/her subsystem. MAINTAINERS file is the right place for storing this information.
>
> U is the second letter of Subsystem.
>
> This will also enable automatic tools like scripts/get_maintainer.pl to provide the correct short name for each filename in the Kernel source tree.
>
This is pretty useless without a script to parse it. Also none of
subsystem names you chose as examples are correct. Please line wrap
your commit message at 72 characters.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-02 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-02 11:57 [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname Peter Senna Tschudin
2012-10-02 11:57 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2012-10-02 12:14 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-10-02 12:14 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-10-02 12:33 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2012-10-02 12:33 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2012-10-02 12:40 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-02 12:40 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-02 12:53 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2012-10-02 12:53 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2012-10-02 13:08 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-02 13:08 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-10-02 13:13 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2012-10-02 13:13 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2012-10-02 13:48 ` Joe Perches
2012-10-02 13:48 ` Joe Perches
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