Messages in this thread |  | | From | Miguel Ojeda <> | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 2020 23:43:03 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS add D: tag for subsystem commit prefix |
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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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