From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8CD8C4CEC7 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:00:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F4E120830 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:00:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="rhcGyriU" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2390259AbfIMPAq (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:00:46 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:43348 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2388211AbfIMPAq (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:00:46 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To: Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=/rrOO5cRfnuT0HPH0sG11kpD8hb/EFmQkUJiAynpSfI=; b=rhcGyriUGdM0uLIxwPsUds2QT t+M0Zs7sOBv6zqYYMm7GBfHI8C5o8Wn19/FCGzhLLfkakZqlASZkCnoNm1ElzdSTNHs5DJzfwQ0S/ sAs15ESalJ9S2r2ftIZc8Y1T0YZ7pzRl8jxQVlMibUStwIfn91AVf+5NKl5l7qv72VxeDZGsgOok7 UXm4bOQOokOzPjF9h+WMsBoTJUBRU+L78K5hAPL1I7FPhBnPzhNxbdWzQR5XXLAUcuCyAJOHLffEI p9Ovn+qpuOdt1PbCis4hoqBgSJre4ax2VCiIp/Ev1VjI9J3m/zLiVwnWY9LsF49wzYWf4M6kKbVmv oNAcnnchg==; Received: from c-73-157-219-8.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([73.157.219.8] helo=[10.0.0.252]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.92.2 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1i8n3z-0006Au-6N; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:00:43 +0000 Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 3/3] libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Maintainer Entry Profile To: Dan Carpenter , Jonathan Corbet Cc: Dave Jiang , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Vishal Verma , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org References: <156821692280.2951081.18036584954940423225.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <156821693963.2951081.11214256396118531359.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20190911184332.GL20699@kadam> <9132e214-9b57-07dc-7ee2-f6bc52e960c5@kernel.dk> <20190913010937.7fc20d93@lwn.net> <20190913114849.GP20699@kadam> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 08:00:42 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190913114849.GP20699@kadam> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 9/13/19 4:48 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: >> So I'm expecting to take this kind of stuff into Documentation/. My own >> personal hope is that it can maybe serve to shame some of these "local >> quirks" out of existence. The evidence from this brief discussion suggests >> that this might indeed happen. > > I don't think it's shaming, I think it's validating. Everyone just > insists that since it's written in the Book of Rules then it's our fault > for not reading it. It's like those EULA things where there is more > text than anyone can physically read in a life time. Yes, agreed. > And the documentation doesn't help. For example, I knew people's rules > about capitalizing the subject but I'd just forget. I say that if you > can't be bothered to add it to checkpatch then it means you don't really > care that strongly. If a subsystem requires a certain spelling/capitalization in patch email subjects, it should be added to MAINTAINERS IMO. E.g., E: NuBus -- ~Randy