On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.se...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
Perhaps you should do get_maintainer.pl changes yourself and then use it to test on some of your patches to see what subject it produces. Then it's easier to see if the proposal makes sense. A new rule / standard is something hard to push and we want to have as much facts as possible to make better decisions. Thanks, Ezequiel. -- 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/
