On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. What are your doubts about this method of getting the short name?
> > 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. The fact is that currently there is no standard way of getting the short name for a subsystem. My proposal fixes it allowing to look on the MAINTAINERS file to see what short name to use. > > Thanks, > Ezequiel. -- 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/
