How to automatically get subsystem name for a file?

[Ezequiel Garcia]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 04:49:13PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 06:57:44PM +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
>> >> I'm trying to figure it out how to automatically get the correct
>> >> subsystem string for putting on the first line of the commit message /
>> >> subject of the patch message. For example:
>> >>
>> >> Subject: [PATCH 001/142] arch/x86: Replace memcpy with struct assignment
>> >>                                        ^^^^^^^^^^
>> >> arch/x86 is only the first two levels of directories from Kernel
>> >> source. This may not be smart enough...
>> >>
>> >
>> > You have to do it manually.  Here are the relevant lines from my
>> > patch script.
>> >
>>
>> Manually? Sure there must be some way of auto do it.
>
> There really isn't an automatic way.  For example [media] and [SCSI]
> are non-standard.
>
> I look at it as a good thing that people have to do it manually.  It
> hopefully makes them slow down a bit.
>

Agreed.
Slow down, less maintainers head.

Thanks,
Ezequiel.