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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] drivers/mfd: make max drivers explicitly non-modular
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On Mon, 04 Apr 2016, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> [Re: [PATCH 0/7] drivers/mfd: make max drivers explicitly non-modular] On 04/04/2016 (Mon 09:11) Lee Jones wrote:
> 
> > How did you come up with the subject lines for these patches?
> 
> I just used the general default of:
>    <path_to_subsystem>: rest of subject
> 
> > 
> > Please do `git log --oneline -- <subsystem>`, as is normal when
> > submitting to mainline.
> 
> Just to be clear, looking at other mfd history, you want me to just
> drop the "drivers/" prefix ; i.e. change from:
> 
>    drivers/mfd: text text text driver.c text
> 
> ...to:
> 
>    mfd: text text text driver.c text
> 
> If so, that is no problem and I can do that for the next revision when I
> drop the patches pending tristate conversion that I wasn't aware of.

Current subsystem format is:

 mfd: sub-driver-name: Thing you're doing

Sub-driver-name doesn't require file extensions and 'Think that you're
doing" should start with an uppercase character.

(Royal-)We like straight lines and conformity. ;)

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Lee Jones
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