linux-kernel - rfc: Updating SubmittingPatches with [RFC PATCH] and/or [WIP PATCH]

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Message-ID: <1473277661.29864.25.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 07 Sep 2016 12:47:41 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: rfc: Updating SubmittingPatches with [RFC PATCH] and/or [WIP PATCH]

On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 17:38 +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Sep 2016, Joe Perches wrote:
[]
> > And another patch series prefix that could be used
> > instead of RFC is WIP.
> Certainly sounds reasonable. Is there a difference in the meaning?

Request for Comment and Work In Progress differences:

Maybe add something like this to Documentation/SubmittingPatches
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 8c79f1d..aa76057 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -404,6 +404,12 @@ convention to prefix your subject line with [PATCH].  This 
 and other kernel developers more easily distinguish patches from other
 e-mail discussions.
 
+If the patch or patch series is just a proposal to garner comments
+use [RFC PATCH] before each patch subject.
+
+If the patch or patch seriies is incomplete or possibly contains known
+defects and you would like others to see the work to date use
+[WIP PATCH] before each patch subject.
 
 
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