On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.se...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >
No doubts so far since I haven't seen it in action. Some script results and more examples could help. >> >> 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. > There is no standard way of getting short name, and there isn't standard way of naming a patch either. Just looking through media list I can spot lots of different subject schemes: [media] foo: fix some bug media: foo: fix some bug foo: fix some bug Some random text and fix some bug Regards, 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/
