On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 14:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:51:51 -0700 Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > People sometimes address this by using > > > > > > "drivers: net: ethernet: amd: use pci_zalloc_consistent" > > > > > > which strikes me as utterly perverse. We already have a nice way of > > > representing the hierarchy and that's using '/'. > > > > I used to do that until several people complained. > > Slap 'em.
And get booked for assault? No thanks. My mild-mannered persona thinks that a poor plan. My actual feeling is I don't much care. btw: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/15/387 I also proposed a scheme where the prescriptive patch subject pedants could put some pattern into MAINTAINERS so that these subject lines could be more automatically generated. https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/16/245 > I don't know where this thing is coming from - I'd suspected there must > be some misguided doc somewhere but I don't know where it is. Some > vast conspiracy against common sense. > I don't want to be overly proscriptive here, but it's a bit maddening > when you're skimming patch titles and cannot work out which part of the > kernel is being patched :( Yup. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
