linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 3/3] libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Maintainer Entry Profile

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Message-ID: <b579153b-3f6d-722c-aea8-abc0d026fa0d@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 13 Sep 2019 08:00:42 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 3/3] libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS:
 Maintainer Entry Profile

On 9/13/19 4:48 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:

>> So I'm expecting to take this kind of stuff into Documentation/.  My own
>> personal hope is that it can maybe serve to shame some of these "local
>> quirks" out of existence.  The evidence from this brief discussion suggests
>> that this might indeed happen.
> 
> I don't think it's shaming, I think it's validating.  Everyone just
> insists that since it's written in the Book of Rules then it's our fault
> for not reading it.  It's like those EULA things where there is more
> text than anyone can physically read in a life time.

Yes, agreed.

> And the documentation doesn't help.  For example, I knew people's rules
> about capitalizing the subject but I'd just forget.  I say that if you
> can't be bothered to add it to checkpatch then it means you don't really
> care that strongly.

If a subsystem requires a certain spelling/capitalization in patch email
subjects, it should be added to MAINTAINERS IMO.  E.g.,
E:	NuBus

-- 
~Randy