On Sun, 2020-11-22 at 08:33 -0800, Tom Rix wrote: > On 11/21/20 9:10 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 08:50 -0800, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > A difficult part of automating commits is composing the subsystem > > > preamble in the commit log. For the ongoing effort of a fixer producing > > > one or two fixes a release the use of 'treewide:' does not seem appropriate. > > > > > > It would be better if the normal prefix was used. Unfortunately normal is > > > not consistent across the tree. > > > > > > So I am looking for comments for adding a new tag to the MAINTAINERS file > > > > > > D: Commit subsystem prefix > > > > > > ex/ for FPGA DFL DRIVERS > > > > > > D: fpga: dfl: > > I'm all for it. Good luck with the effort. It's not completely trivial. > > > > From a decade ago: > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1289919077.28741.50.camel@Joe-Laptop/ > > > > (and that thread started with extra semicolon patches too) > > Reading the history, how about this. > > get_maintainer.pl outputs a single prefix, if multiple files have the > same prefix it works, if they don't its an error. > > Another script 'commit_one_file.sh' does the call to get_mainainter.pl > to get the prefix and be called by run-clang-tools.py to get the fixer > specific message. It's not whether the script used is get_maintainer or any other script, the question is really if the MAINTAINERS file is the appropriate place to store per-subsystem patch specific prefixes. It is. Then the question should be how are the forms described and what is the inheritance priority. My preference would be to have a default of inherit the parent base and add basename(subsystem dirname). Commit history seems to have standardized on using colons as the separator between the commit prefix and the subject. A good mechanism to explore how various subsystems have uses prefixes in the past might be something like: $ git log --no-merges --pretty='%s' -<commit_count> <subsystem_path> | \ perl -n -e 'print substr($_, 0, rindex($_, ":") + 1) . "\n";' | \ sort | uniq -c | sort -rn Using 10000 for commit_count and drivers/scsi for subsystem_path, the top 40 entries are below: About 1% don't have a colon, and there is no real consistency even within individual drivers below scsi. For instance, qla2xxx: 1 814 scsi: qla2xxx: 2 691 scsi: lpfc: 3 389 scsi: hisi_sas: 4 354 scsi: ufs: 5 339 scsi: 6 291 qla2xxx: 7 256 scsi: megaraid_sas: 8 249 scsi: mpt3sas: 9 200 hpsa: 10 190 scsi: aacraid: 11 174 lpfc: 12 153 scsi: qedf: 13 144 scsi: smartpqi: 14 139 scsi: cxlflash: 15 122 scsi: core: 16 110 [SCSI] qla2xxx: 17 108 ncr5380: 18 98 scsi: hpsa: 19 97 20 89 treewide: 21 88 mpt3sas: 22 86 scsi: libfc: 23 85 scsi: qedi: 24 84 scsi: be2iscsi: 25 81 [SCSI] qla4xxx: 26 81 hisi_sas: 27 81 block: 28 75 megaraid_sas: 29 71 scsi: sd: 30 69 [SCSI] hpsa: 31 68 cxlflash: 32 65 scsi: libsas: 33 65 scsi: fnic: 34 61 scsi: scsi_debug: 35 60 scsi: arcmsr: 36 57 be2iscsi: 37 53 atp870u: 38 51 scsi: bfa: 39 50 scsi: storvsc: 40 48 sd:
