Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Tegra DMA residue improvements

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

On 05/21/2014 05:06 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 08:58:51AM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> On 05/21/2014 07:52 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 02:22:20PM -0700, Christopher Freeman wrote:
>>>> A collection of patches to improve Tegra's DMA residual reporting
>>>>
>>>> Christopher Freeman (3):
>>>>   dma: tegra: finer granularity residual for tx_status
>>>>   dma: tegra: change interrupt-related log levels
>>>>   dma: tegra: avoid int overflow for transferred count
>>> Can you pls use the *right* subsystem name...
>>>
>>
>> Without you saying what the right subsystem name is, I think it is
>> not that obvious what it is:
> ah... the subsystem name and ML name is dmaengine
> 
>>
>> git log --format="%s" --no-merges drivers/dma/ | grep '^[a-zA-Z]\+'
>> -o | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
>>
>> 381 dma
>> 509 dmaengine
>>
>> So there is a bias towards 'dmaengine', but if you only look at
>> recent commits there is a bias towards 'dma'.
> And thats what i am getting annoyed at :) Yes ppl please use dmaengine only
> I think I will stop accepting patches with "dma" now and improve the stats
> here...

Simplest is to just edit the commit subjects/descriptions when you apply
patches. That way, you don't have to reject patches, or force people to
repost patches for nit-picky reasons, yet still get the results you want
in the final git tree. I certainly do this for Tegra patches.