linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] sound/soc/atmel: don't use devm_pinctrl_get_select

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Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:46:14 +0200
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] sound/soc/atmel: don't use
 devm_pinctrl_get_select_default() in probe


> > > Applied, thanks.  Please use subject lines appropriate to the subsystem.
> 
> > That's quite a nut to crack with a generated patch series running over
> > the whole tree. I wonder if it is really worth the effort?
> 
> I think it's probably worth the effort to add something to put rules for
> these things in MAINTAINERS, it'd cover 90% of cases.  If you're sending
> only one of a big series with a subject line that won't pattern match
> that's a good way to get stuff dropped on the floor.

On the other hand, MAINTAINERS information gets overlooked and/or could
get stale. Thinking about it again, it is probably less work (at least
for me with i2c) to create a git-hook fixing the subject line than to
always nag people.


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