1From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> 2Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer 3 preference tool 4Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:57:57 -0800 5Lines: 25 6Message-ID: <1289951877.28741.262.camel@Joe-Laptop> 7References: <1289850773.16461.166.camel@Joe-Laptop> 8 <20101116104921.GL12986@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> 9 <1289919077.28741.50.camel@Joe-Laptop> 10 <20101116183707.179964dd@schatten.dmk.lab> 11 <20101116181226.GB26239@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> 12 <20101116203522.65240b18@schatten.dmk.lab> 13 <20101116195530.GA7523@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> 14 <20101116122102.86e7e0b9.rdunlap@xenotime.net> 15 <1289940156.28741.207.camel@Joe-Laptop> 16 <20101116124609.382e42fb.rdunlap@xenotime.net> 17 <20101116232258.GC24623@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> 18Mime-Version: 1.0 19Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 20Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 21Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, 22 Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>, 23 Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>, 24 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, 25 alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 26To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> 27X-From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 17 00:58:25 2010 28Return-path: <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org> 29Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@lo.gmane.org 30Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) 31 by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) 32 (envelope-from <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org>) 33 id 1PIVPr-0004pn-RQ 34 for glk-linux-kernel-3@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:58:24 +0100 35Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand 36 id S1757881Ab0KPX6A (ORCPT <rfc822;glk-linux-kernel-3@m.gmane.org>); 37 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:58:00 -0500 38Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:1493 "EHLO mail.perches.com" 39 rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP 40 id S1757143Ab0KPX57 (ORCPT <rfc822;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>); 41 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:57:59 -0500 42Received: from [192.168.1.162] (unknown [192.168.1.162]) 43 by mail.perches.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87C82436B; 44 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:55:40 -0800 (PST) 45In-Reply-To: <20101116232258.GC24623@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> 46X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 47Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org 48Precedence: bulk 49List-ID: <linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org> 50X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 51Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1063504> 52 53On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 23:22 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: 54> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:46:09PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: 55> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:36 -0800 Joe Perches wrote: 56> > > Some subsystem maintainers like upper case, some mixed, some lower. 57> > > Some aren't consistent. (Staging/staging) 58> > Case usually doesn't matter to most of us. 59> Given that we're working in case sensitive languages here it's probably 60> safe to assume that a reasonable proportion of people will care; being 61> reasonably consistent with existing practice for the subsystem seems 62> sensible. 63 64Presumably the tool would also have to traverse up the tree 65to find the appropriate style so every MAINTAINERS section 66would not need a C entry. 67 68ie: sound/soc/codecs/foo could use the C: entry for sound/soc/ 69 70Perhaps something like: 71 C: ASoC basename: 72 73and for arch/x86/: 74 C: x86, dirname: 75 76etc. 77 78 79 80