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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/22] pci-dma-compat: Add pci_zalloc_consistent helper
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On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 14:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:51:51 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> > > People sometimes address this by using
> > >
> > > "drivers: net: ethernet: amd: use pci_zalloc_consistent"
> > >
> > > which strikes me as utterly perverse. We already have a nice way of
> > > representing the hierarchy and that's using '/'.
> >
> > I used to do that until several people complained.
>
> Slap 'em.

And get booked for assault? No thanks.
My mild-mannered persona thinks that a poor plan.

My actual feeling is I don't much care.

btw: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/15/387

I also proposed a scheme where the prescriptive
patch subject pedants could put some pattern
into MAINTAINERS so that these subject lines
could be more automatically generated.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/16/245

> I don't know where this thing is coming from - I'd suspected there must
> be some misguided doc somewhere but I don't know where it is. Some
> vast conspiracy against common sense.

> I don't want to be overly proscriptive here, but it's a bit maddening
> when you're skimming patch titles and cannot work out which part of the
> kernel is being patched :(

Yup.



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