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SubjectRe: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS add D: tag for subsystem commit prefix
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:51 PM <trix@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> From
> RFC MAINTAINERS tag for cleanup robot
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/11/21/190

Please use lore.kernel.org for links.

> The prefix used by subsystems in their commit log is arbitrary.
> To elimitate the time and effort to manually find a reasonable

Typo in "eliminate".

> prefix, store the preferred prefix in the MAINTAINERS file.
>
> Populate with reasonable prefixes using this algorithm.
> What did the maintainers use in their commits?
> If there were no maintainers commits then what did everyone
> else use in their commits.

Why is this in the form of a question? I am not sure I understand --
is it rhetorical?

> The results were manually reviewed and about 25% were rejected.

What do you mean by rejected?

> Add 'D' tag to checkpatch.pl
>
> Use 'D' tag by adding --subsystem_commit_prefix option
> get_maintainer.pl

This looks also out of place, as if it was squashed from other
commits. I would suggest trying to reword the message in prose,
explaining the rationale and why it was done like this.

> AUXILIARY DISPLAY DRIVERS

Missing entry for auxdisplay.

Cheers,
Miguel

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