Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [RFC PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS, Handbook: Subsystem Profile

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 14:44 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> I quickly cooked up this script to produce the top-5 commit prefixes for
> the given files over the arbitrary last 200 commits. It'll give you a
> pretty good idea if you're even close.
> 
> ---
> #!/bin/sh
> # usage: subject-prefix FILE [...]
> # show top 5 subject prefixes for FILEs
> 
> git log --format=%s -n 200 -- "$@" |\
> 	grep -v "^Merge " |\
> 	sed 's/\(.*\):.*/\1/' |\
> 	sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | sed 's/ *[0-9]\+ //' |\
> 	head -n 5
> ---
> 
> Someone who knows perl could turn that into a checkpatch check: See if
> the patch subject prefix is one of the top-5 for all files changed by
> the patch, and ask the user to double check if it isn't. Or some
> heuristics thereof.

This won't work when a patch contains multiple files
from different paths, or even multiple files from a
single driver.

Perhaps it's better to use a generic mechanism like

	basename $(dirname $filename):

with some exceptions and add an override patch subject
grammar to appropriate various sections of MAINTAINERS.

I also think it's better to use a separate script like
scripts/spdxcheck.py and tie any necessary checkpatch
use to that script.