* [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname @ 2012-10-02 11:57 ` Peter Senna Tschudin 0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Peter Senna Tschudin @ 2012-10-02 11:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: joe Cc: gregkh, davem, arnd, elezegarcia, dan.carpenter, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors, Peter Senna Tschudin 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. Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 3386238..a1be2a1 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ Descriptions of section entries: matches patches or files that contain one or more of the words printk, pr_info or pr_err One regex pattern per line. Multiple K: lines acceptable. + U: Subsystem short name. Used in the subject of patch sent by email to + identify that subsystem. Short means up to 20 chars. Examples: + U: media + U: media/em28xx + U: SCSI Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in alphabetical order. If you could add yourselves to it in alphabetical order that would be -- 1.7.11.4 ^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname @ 2012-10-02 11:57 ` Peter Senna Tschudin 0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Peter Senna Tschudin @ 2012-10-02 11:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: joe Cc: gregkh, davem, arnd, elezegarcia, dan.carpenter, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors, Peter Senna Tschudin 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. Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 3386238..a1be2a1 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ Descriptions of section entries: matches patches or files that contain one or more of the words printk, pr_info or pr_err One regex pattern per line. Multiple K: lines acceptable. + U: Subsystem short name. Used in the subject of patch sent by email to + identify that subsystem. Short means up to 20 chars. Examples: + U: media + U: media/em28xx + U: SCSI Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in alphabetical order. If you could add yourselves to it in alphabetical order that would be -- 1.7.11.4 ^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname 2012-10-02 11:57 ` Peter Senna Tschudin @ 2012-10-02 12:14 ` Dan Carpenter -1 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Dan Carpenter @ 2012-10-02 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Senna Tschudin Cc: joe, gregkh, davem, arnd, elezegarcia, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname @ 2012-10-02 12:14 ` Dan Carpenter 0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Dan Carpenter @ 2012-10-02 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Senna Tschudin Cc: joe, gregkh, davem, arnd, elezegarcia, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname 2012-10-02 12:14 ` Dan Carpenter @ 2012-10-02 12:33 ` Peter Senna Tschudin -1 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Peter Senna Tschudin @ 2012-10-02 12:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dan Carpenter Cc: joe, gregkh, davem, arnd, elezegarcia, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: > 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 With or without a script, there is no default way of finding the short name. Changing scripts/get_maintainer.pl to do it does not seems very complex. > subsystem names you chose as examples are correct. Please line wrap See? It's not easy to find three examples to put on the text. Can you please provide three examples? > your commit message at 72 characters. Yes. I'll fix it. Thank you, Peter > > regards, > dan carpenter > -- Peter ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname @ 2012-10-02 12:33 ` Peter Senna Tschudin 0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Peter Senna Tschudin @ 2012-10-02 12:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dan Carpenter Cc: joe, gregkh, davem, arnd, elezegarcia, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: > 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 With or without a script, there is no default way of finding the short name. Changing scripts/get_maintainer.pl to do it does not seems very complex. > subsystem names you chose as examples are correct. Please line wrap See? It's not easy to find three examples to put on the text. Can you please provide three examples? > your commit message at 72 characters. Yes. I'll fix it. Thank you, Peter > > regards, > dan carpenter > -- Peter ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname 2012-10-02 12:33 ` Peter Senna Tschudin @ 2012-10-02 12:40 ` Ezequiel Garcia -1 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Ezequiel Garcia @ 2012-10-02 12:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Senna Tschudin Cc: Dan Carpenter, joe, gregkh, davem, arnd, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: >> 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 > With or without a script, there is no default way of finding the short > name. Changing scripts/get_maintainer.pl to do it does not seems very > complex. > Perhaps you should do get_maintainer.pl changes yourself and then use it to test on some of your patches to see what subject it produces. Then it's easier to see if the proposal makes sense. A new rule / standard is something hard to push and we want to have as much facts as possible to make better decisions. Thanks, Ezequiel. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname @ 2012-10-02 12:40 ` Ezequiel Garcia 0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Ezequiel Garcia @ 2012-10-02 12:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Senna Tschudin Cc: Dan Carpenter, joe, gregkh, davem, arnd, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: >> 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 > With or without a script, there is no default way of finding the short > name. Changing scripts/get_maintainer.pl to do it does not seems very > complex. > Perhaps you should do get_maintainer.pl changes yourself and then use it to test on some of your patches to see what subject it produces. Then it's easier to see if the proposal makes sense. A new rule / standard is something hard to push and we want to have as much facts as possible to make better decisions. Thanks, Ezequiel. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname 2012-10-02 12:40 ` Ezequiel Garcia @ 2012-10-02 12:53 ` Peter Senna Tschudin -1 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Peter Senna Tschudin @ 2012-10-02 12:53 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ezequiel Garcia Cc: Dan Carpenter, joe, gregkh, davem, arnd, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin > <peter.senna@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: >>> 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 >> With or without a script, there is no default way of finding the short >> name. Changing scripts/get_maintainer.pl to do it does not seems very >> complex. >> > > Perhaps you should do get_maintainer.pl changes yourself and then > use it to test on some of your patches to see what subject it produces. What are your doubts about this method of getting the short name? > > Then it's easier to see if the proposal makes sense. > A new rule / standard is something hard to push and we want to have as much > facts as possible to make better decisions. The fact is that currently there is no standard way of getting the short name for a subsystem. My proposal fixes it allowing to look on the MAINTAINERS file to see what short name to use. > > Thanks, > Ezequiel. -- Peter ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname @ 2012-10-02 12:53 ` Peter Senna Tschudin 0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Peter Senna Tschudin @ 2012-10-02 12:53 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ezequiel Garcia Cc: Dan Carpenter, joe, gregkh, davem, arnd, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin > <peter.senna@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: >>> 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 >> With or without a script, there is no default way of finding the short >> name. Changing scripts/get_maintainer.pl to do it does not seems very >> complex. >> > > Perhaps you should do get_maintainer.pl changes yourself and then > use it to test on some of your patches to see what subject it produces. What are your doubts about this method of getting the short name? > > Then it's easier to see if the proposal makes sense. > A new rule / standard is something hard to push and we want to have as much > facts as possible to make better decisions. The fact is that currently there is no standard way of getting the short name for a subsystem. My proposal fixes it allowing to look on the MAINTAINERS file to see what short name to use. > > Thanks, > Ezequiel. -- Peter ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname 2012-10-02 12:53 ` Peter Senna Tschudin @ 2012-10-02 13:08 ` Ezequiel Garcia -1 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Ezequiel Garcia @ 2012-10-02 13:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Senna Tschudin Cc: Dan Carpenter, joe, gregkh, davem, arnd, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin >> <peter.senna@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: >>>> 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 >>> With or without a script, there is no default way of finding the short >>> name. Changing scripts/get_maintainer.pl to do it does not seems very >>> complex. >>> >> >> Perhaps you should do get_maintainer.pl changes yourself and then >> use it to test on some of your patches to see what subject it produces. > What are your doubts about this method of getting the short name? > No doubts so far since I haven't seen it in action. Some script results and more examples could help. >> >> Then it's easier to see if the proposal makes sense. >> A new rule / standard is something hard to push and we want to have as much >> facts as possible to make better decisions. > The fact is that currently there is no standard way of getting the > short name for a subsystem. My proposal fixes it allowing to look on > the MAINTAINERS file to see what short name to use. > There is no standard way of getting short name, and there isn't standard way of naming a patch either. Just looking through media list I can spot lots of different subject schemes: [media] foo: fix some bug media: foo: fix some bug foo: fix some bug Some random text and fix some bug Regards, Ezequiel. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname @ 2012-10-02 13:08 ` Ezequiel Garcia 0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Ezequiel Garcia @ 2012-10-02 13:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Senna Tschudin Cc: Dan Carpenter, joe, gregkh, davem, arnd, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin >> <peter.senna@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: >>>> 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 >>> With or without a script, there is no default way of finding the short >>> name. Changing scripts/get_maintainer.pl to do it does not seems very >>> complex. >>> >> >> Perhaps you should do get_maintainer.pl changes yourself and then >> use it to test on some of your patches to see what subject it produces. > What are your doubts about this method of getting the short name? > No doubts so far since I haven't seen it in action. Some script results and more examples could help. >> >> Then it's easier to see if the proposal makes sense. >> A new rule / standard is something hard to push and we want to have as much >> facts as possible to make better decisions. > The fact is that currently there is no standard way of getting the > short name for a subsystem. My proposal fixes it allowing to look on > the MAINTAINERS file to see what short name to use. > There is no standard way of getting short name, and there isn't standard way of naming a patch either. Just looking through media list I can spot lots of different subject schemes: [media] foo: fix some bug media: foo: fix some bug foo: fix some bug Some random text and fix some bug Regards, Ezequiel. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname 2012-10-02 13:08 ` Ezequiel Garcia @ 2012-10-02 13:13 ` Peter Senna Tschudin -1 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Peter Senna Tschudin @ 2012-10-02 13:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ezequiel Garcia Cc: Dan Carpenter, joe, gregkh, davem, arnd, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin > <peter.senna@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin >>> <peter.senna@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: >>>>> 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 >>>> With or without a script, there is no default way of finding the short >>>> name. Changing scripts/get_maintainer.pl to do it does not seems very >>>> complex. >>>> >>> >>> Perhaps you should do get_maintainer.pl changes yourself and then >>> use it to test on some of your patches to see what subject it produces. >> What are your doubts about this method of getting the short name? >> > > No doubts so far since I haven't seen it in action. > Some script results and more examples could help. > >>> >>> Then it's easier to see if the proposal makes sense. >>> A new rule / standard is something hard to push and we want to have as much >>> facts as possible to make better decisions. >> The fact is that currently there is no standard way of getting the >> short name for a subsystem. My proposal fixes it allowing to look on >> the MAINTAINERS file to see what short name to use. >> > > There is no standard way of getting short name, and there isn't standard > way of naming a patch either. > > Just looking through media list I can spot lots of different subject schemes: > [media] foo: fix some bug > media: foo: fix some bug > foo: fix some bug > Some random text and fix some bug According to: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/commit_messages.html the subsystem short name is also important for whom is not working directly on that subsystem but may receive the E-mail with the patch... > > Regards, > Ezequiel. -- Peter ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname @ 2012-10-02 13:13 ` Peter Senna Tschudin 0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Peter Senna Tschudin @ 2012-10-02 13:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ezequiel Garcia Cc: Dan Carpenter, joe, gregkh, davem, arnd, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin > <peter.senna@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin >>> <peter.senna@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: >>>>> 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 >>>> With or without a script, there is no default way of finding the short >>>> name. Changing scripts/get_maintainer.pl to do it does not seems very >>>> complex. >>>> >>> >>> Perhaps you should do get_maintainer.pl changes yourself and then >>> use it to test on some of your patches to see what subject it produces. >> What are your doubts about this method of getting the short name? >> > > No doubts so far since I haven't seen it in action. > Some script results and more examples could help. > >>> >>> Then it's easier to see if the proposal makes sense. >>> A new rule / standard is something hard to push and we want to have as much >>> facts as possible to make better decisions. >> The fact is that currently there is no standard way of getting the >> short name for a subsystem. My proposal fixes it allowing to look on >> the MAINTAINERS file to see what short name to use. >> > > There is no standard way of getting short name, and there isn't standard > way of naming a patch either. > > Just looking through media list I can spot lots of different subject schemes: > [media] foo: fix some bug > media: foo: fix some bug > foo: fix some bug > Some random text and fix some bug According to: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/commit_messages.html the subsystem short name is also important for whom is not working directly on that subsystem but may receive the E-mail with the patch... > > Regards, > Ezequiel. -- Peter ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname 2012-10-02 13:13 ` Peter Senna Tschudin @ 2012-10-02 13:48 ` Joe Perches -1 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Joe Perches @ 2012-10-02 13:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Senna Tschudin Cc: Ezequiel Garcia, Dan Carpenter, gregkh, davem, arnd, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 15:13 +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just looking through media list I can spot lots of different subject schemes: > > [media] foo: fix some bug > > media: foo: fix some bug > > foo: fix some bug > > Some random text and fix some bug > > According to: > > http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/commit_messages.html > > the subsystem short name is also important for whom is not working > directly on that subsystem but may receive the E-mail with the > patch... Thread from awhile ago: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/16/245 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname @ 2012-10-02 13:48 ` Joe Perches 0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread From: Joe Perches @ 2012-10-02 13:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Senna Tschudin Cc: Ezequiel Garcia, Dan Carpenter, gregkh, davem, arnd, Julia.Lawall, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 15:13 +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just looking through media list I can spot lots of different subject schemes: > > [media] foo: fix some bug > > media: foo: fix some bug > > foo: fix some bug > > Some random text and fix some bug > > According to: > > http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/commit_messages.html > > the subsystem short name is also important for whom is not working > directly on that subsystem but may receive the E-mail with the > patch... Thread from awhile ago: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/16/245 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 16+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2012-10-02 13:48 UTC | newest] Thread overview: 16+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed -- links below jump to the message on this page -- 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 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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