Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS add D: tag for subsystem commit prefix

[Joe Perches]

On Sat, 2020-11-28 at 08:30 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
> On 11/28/20 8:00 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sat, 2020-11-28 at 07:36 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
> > > On 11/27/20 2:10 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > []
> > > > I think an exception mechanism would be better than a specific
> > > > mechanism added to various entries.
> > > Can you give an example of what you mean ?
> > Inherit the parent prefix then add the basename(dirname) as a default.
> > 
> > For instance, changes to any subsystem of drivers/staging starts as
> > "staging: " and with "$basename(path): " appended.
> 
> Ah, this is quite a bit different.
> 
> As far as I can tell there is no default.

The idea is to avoid adding a D: entry to each subsystem section.

> MAINTAINERS would only have the exceptions, obviously needing drivers/foo to be 'foo:'
> 
> Without the full prefix, the user would be need to use get_maintainer.pl to figure it out.

True.  Or some other script.
 
> Are the ""'s in the D value necessary ?

Maybe not.  I did that for clarity with the space after colon.
My recollection is some systems used "[subsystem]" separators
and other use / without space and not colons, but I'm for
whatever approriate changes that support standarization

I think most developer/maintainers don't care one way or
another about patch commit prefixes, but those that do care
seem to care a lot.