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Message-Id: <20140625145744.9cb4ec9e3ea7a63bf630eeaa@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:57:44 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/22] pci-dma-compat: Add pci_zalloc_consistent helper
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:51:51 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.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.
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.
> Now I don't. btw: Documentation/SubmittingPatches says:
>
> 15) The canonical patch format
>
> The canonical patch subject line is:
>
> Subject: [PATCH 001/123] subsystem: summary phrase
Yes, that doesn't go into how to identify the subsystem.
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 :(
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