Julia Lawall wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, David Brownell wrote: > >> Please update $SUBJECT to say which driver is >> affected; > > Done. > >> it's not everything in that directory, >> and accurate GIT summaries help a lot. > > Is there some sort of rule that can be followed? For example, if the > patch affects only one, file, should that file be named? What if the > patch affects only two files? gitk $path or git shortlog $path, with $path being the file or directory, give a quick impression how the resident developers call their driver or subsystem updates. E.g. ^USB: instead of ^drivers/usb/. However, the committer could still adjust the title, so no drama if the patch subject as written by a cross-tree developer looks different from those of the usual subsystem patches. IMO this is one of the tasks of a subsystem maintainer. And it is quickly enough done with a git commit --amend. There is only a drawbackif the subject is too broad /and/ if the Cc list is too short; a driver developer may miss to see the submission. The danger of that is low though when get_maintainer.pl is used to good effect. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- =--- ===-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
