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
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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>
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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.
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