Re: [PATCH RFC] MAINTAINERS: Add section for subsystem shortname

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Oct 02 2012 - 09:50:43 EST


On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 15:13 +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Just looking through media list I can spot lots of different subject schemes:
> > [media] foo: fix some bug
> > media: foo: fix some bug
> > foo: fix some bug
> > Some random text and fix some bug
>
> According to:
>
> http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/commit_messages.html
>
> the subsystem short name is also important for whom is not working
> directly on that subsystem but may receive the E-mail with the
> patch...

Thread from awhile ago:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/16/245


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