Agreed, there are enough things that we're pedantic about; while I support
the general idea, I wouldn't want this to turn into another opportunity for
pedantry.

What I use the keywords for is on the review end, helping me decide whether
or not I should try and review a particular patch.  (Or more often, how
guilty I should feel about not getting around to reviewing it...)

Steve


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:19 AM, nathan binkert <[email protected]> wrote:

> Heh, neither was I.  My whole belief is that the keywords are so that
> developers can quickly pick out "interesting" changesets.  I'd see no
> reason to say "cpu: o3:" when simply "o3:" will do.  Similarly, why
> have "kvm: arch:" when "kvm:" will do?  If a subsystem gets big, then
> it should be subdivided and the leaf keyword should be used.  I guess
> I could see "kvm arm:" or something like that if kvm gets broad enough
> that the arm developers and the x86 developers don't care enough about
> what they're each doing.
>
> I always thought of this as ad hoc and IMHO it should be.
>
>   Nate
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I wasn't even aware we had an official list of keywords... but this plan
> > sounds fine to me.  That said, I personally would think that it's much
> more
> > reliable to find o3-related changes by doing 'hg log src/cpu/o3' than by
> > trusting that appropriate keywords were used in the commit message.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Andreas Hansson <
> [email protected]>wrote:
> >
> >> Assuming everyone is happy with this I'd suggest to expand the list on
> the
> >> wiki and create a heading with keywords (and their corresponding
> >> sub-keywords) and then start populating it.
> >>
> >> Andreas
> >>
> >>
> >> On 26/06/2013 10:06, "Andreas Sandberg" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> >On 06/24/2013 02:49 PM, Andreas Hansson wrote:
> >> >> Hi all,
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm keen to know what people think about the use of summary keywords
> in
> >> >>the commit messages. I noticed that Nilay uses two keywords, one from
> >> >>http://gem5.org/Commit_Access and then one additional (more specific)
> >> >>keyword. Pros/cons? Is it suggesting a need for more keywords?
> >> >
> >> >I'm in favour of using multiple keywords. I've generally used the
> format
> >> >"kvm: arch: summary" for my KVM-related patches and I think this might
> >> >be a good idea in general. For example, the O3 CPU is a pretty large
> >> >subsystem, so that should to warrant its own sub-keyword ("cpu: o3:
> ...").
> >> >
> >> >However, we should probably try to "standardize" the keywords we use to
> >> >make it easier to search for relevant changes in the revision history.
> >> >
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