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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
