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
