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+From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
+Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem
+ maintainer preference tool
+Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:46:09 -0800
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+On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:36 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
+
+> On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 12:21 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
+> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:55:31 +0000 Mark Brown wrote:
+> > I don't know what you asked Joe to change, but asking someone to use
+> > the documented canonical patch format:
+> > <quote>
+> > The canonical patch subject line is:
+> > Subject: [PATCH 001/123] subsystem: summary phrase
+> > </quote>
+> > should be fine. And there is no need for printf-ish templates
+> > for this in MAINTAINERS either.
+>
+> I've never read that before. Learn something new etc...
+> It seems path prefixes aren't good nor even commonly used.
+>
+> A review of kernel patch subjects:
+>
+> $ git log --no-merges --pretty=oneline | \
+> cut -f2- -d" " | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
+>
+> is interesting. Here's the head:
+> 5007 x86
+> 3943 Staging
+> 3220 USB
+> 2790 sh
+> 2707 KVM
+> 2624 ARM
+> 2449 ALSA
+> 1571 Input
+> 1549 ASoC
+> 1470 iwlwifi
+> 1423 ACPI
+> 1397 mac80211
+> 1384 V4L/DVB
+> 1226 sched
+> 1200 Btrfs
+> 1184 powerpc
+> 1106 [NETFILTER]
+> 1080 MIPS
+> 1049 net
+> 1047 ide
+> 1014 drm/i915
+> 993 staging
+> 921 ath9k
+
+$ARCH is a commonly accepted substitute for subsystem.
+
+And yes, lots of people use <drivername> there as well.
+
+
+> Some subsystem maintainers like upper case, some mixed, some lower.
+> Some aren't consistent. (Staging/staging)
+
+Case usually doesn't matter to most of us.
+
+> It doesn't seem a rule can be pregenerated so maybe adding these
+> "C:" lines to MAINTAINERS has some value.
+
+Hopefully it won't go that far.
+
+---
+~Randy
+*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***
+
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