On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> wrote: > 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 With or without a script, there is no default way of finding the short name. Changing scripts/get_maintainer.pl to do it does not seems very complex.
> subsystem names you chose as examples are correct. Please line wrap See? It's not easy to find three examples to put on the text. Can you please provide three examples? > your commit message at 72 characters. Yes. I'll fix it. Thank you, Peter > > regards, > dan carpenter > -- Peter -- 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/
