From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>,
Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer preference tool
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:50:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101116235025.GA7256@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101116152835.b0ab571c.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 03:28:35PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:22:58 +0000 Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:46:09PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > Case usually doesn't matter to most of us.
> > Given that we're working in case sensitive languages here it's probably
> > safe to assume that a reasonable proportion of people will care; being
> > reasonably consistent with existing practice for the subsystem seems
> > sensible.
> Greg takes patches that say STAGING or Staging or staging.
> DaveM takes patches that say net: or netdev: or network: or NET:
> The sound maintainers take patches that say sound: or alsa: or ALSA:
> etc.
...and best practice would be to pay attention to what the standard
thing is for the subsystem and follow that. We shouldn't be suggesting
that people just ignore the case, though obviously if it's not clear
then it's not worth worrying too much about it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-16 23:50 UTC|newest]
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2010-11-15 3:04 [PATCH 00/44] remove unnecessary semicolons Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 01/44] arch/arm: Remove " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 02/44] arch/microblaze: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 6:37 ` Michal Simek
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 03/44] arch/um: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 04/44] drivers/cpufreq: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 05/44] drivers/gpio: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 06/44] drivers/i2c: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 07/44] drivers/isdn: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:08 ` David Miller
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 08/44] drivers/leds: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 09/44] drivers/media/video: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 10/44] drivers/misc: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 11/44] drivers/mmc: " Joe Perches
2010-12-05 3:32 ` Chris Ball
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 12/44] drivers/net/bnx2x: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:08 ` David Miller
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 13/44] drivers/net/e1000e: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:08 ` David Miller
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 14/44] drivers/net/ixgbe: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 16:24 ` Rose, Gregory V
2010-11-15 19:08 ` David Miller
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 15/44] drivers/net/vxge: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:07 ` David Miller
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 16/44] drivers/net/wireless/ath: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 17/44] drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 18/44] drivers/net/cnic.c: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:08 ` David Miller
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 19/44] drivers/platform/x86: " Joe Perches
2010-11-24 16:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 20/44] drivers/power: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 21/44] drivers/s390/net: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:08 ` David Miller
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 22/44] drivers/scsi/be2iscsi: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 23/44] drivers/scsi/bfa: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 24/44] drivers/scsi/lpfc: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 25/44] drivers/scsi/pm8001: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:27 ` Jack Wang
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 26/44] drivers/scsi/qla2xxx: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 27/44] drivers/serial: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 28/44] drivers/spi: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:57 ` Grant Likely
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 29/44] drivers/staging: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 30/44] drivers/usb/gadget: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 31/44] drivers/xen: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 32/44] fs/9p: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 33/44] fs/ceph: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 34/44] fs/logfs: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 35/44] fs/nfs: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 36/44] fs/ocfs2: " Joe Perches
2010-11-17 0:10 ` Joel Becker
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 37/44] fs/ubifs: " Joe Perches
2010-11-19 13:21 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 38/44] include/linux/if_macvlan.h: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:07 ` David Miller
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 39/44] include/net/caif/cfctrl.h: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 7:12 ` Sjur BRENDELAND
2010-11-15 19:07 ` David Miller
2010-11-15 3:04 ` [PATCH 40/44] mm/hugetlb.c: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 9:52 ` Mel Gorman
2010-11-15 3:05 ` [PATCH 41/44] net/ipv6/mcast.c: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:07 ` David Miller
2010-11-15 3:05 ` [PATCH 42/44] net/sunrpc/addr.c: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 3:05 ` [PATCH 43/44] sound/core/pcm_lib.c: " Joe Perches
2010-11-22 6:44 ` Takashi Iwai
2010-11-15 3:05 ` [PATCH 44/44] sound/soc/codecs: " Joe Perches
2010-11-15 11:09 ` Liam Girdwood
2010-11-15 13:49 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-15 17:09 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-15 17:30 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-15 17:34 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-15 18:27 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-15 18:30 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:07 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-15 19:14 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-15 19:34 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-15 19:52 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-16 10:49 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-16 14:51 ` rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer preference tool Joe Perches
2010-11-16 15:04 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-16 17:37 ` Florian Mickler
2010-11-16 18:12 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-16 19:35 ` Florian Mickler
2010-11-16 19:55 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-16 20:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-11-16 20:42 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-16 20:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-11-16 23:22 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-16 23:28 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-11-16 23:50 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2010-11-16 23:57 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-17 0:55 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-11-16 23:57 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-16 23:01 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-17 0:44 ` Stefan Richter
2010-11-17 0:53 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-11-17 17:07 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-17 21:07 ` Stefan Richter
2010-11-17 23:49 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-17 19:32 ` [PATCH 44/44] sound/soc/codecs: Remove unnecessary semicolons Pavel Machek
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