On 14/06/2013 15:18, Jagan Teki wrote: >> This does not scale. >> What if a (trivial) patch touches 10 drivers? > Yes, you are correct if the changes is common to across the all drivers or > If the changes which are more in 10 spi drivers out of 20 or > 10 for > your example - use "spi: " > and I think it's good to use above syntax as you changesd two drivers. > > I am just showing the possibilities of using the coding guidelines, > nothing more.
There is another issue: patman recognizes each <subpart>: and checks for an alias to find the e-mail to send patches, and stops to go on if it is not found. In this example, you can use patman if there is an entry for spi: (and this is you as SPI custodian) and also for mxc_spi:, and usually there is no maintainer for each driver. I agree that using a long chain does not scale, and I think the hidden rule to use <subsystem:> <subject> works well in most cases, Axel did in this patchset. Regards, Stefano -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sba...@denx.de ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot