Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My question would be, will the existing automated systems that parse >> the "PATCH" subject deal with a non-whitespaced suffix like this? > > Hmm. Maybe just space them out. That's what networking already does, > ie you'll see things like > > [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] patch description here > > [PATCH net] some-patch-description > > in subject lines. Maybe we can just encourage that format in general. > > And yes, I agree, for when the targets are obvious, this clearly isn't > needed. And often they are. > > So this would still likely be the exception rather than the rule, but > it would be a lot more obvious than hiding a one-liner commentary deep > in the middle of the email.
At least for me (as the wireless-drivers maintainer) this would be a major improvement as it's not always clear to which to tree a patch should be applied and it would save unnecessary ping pong when I need to ask which tree is the patch going to. I think few times I have even accidentally applied a patch which Dave has already applied to the net tree because of the target tree was not clearly marked. So at least I would very much welcome having this documented somewhere in Documentation so that I can start convincing people to use it more :) -- Kalle Valo
