Re: [PATCH 4/4] sound/soc/atmel: don't usedevm_pinctrl_get_select_default() in probe

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Thu Oct 17 2013 - 12:47:05 EST



> > > 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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