On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@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. Perhaps, parsing Makefile or (if we have access to a build) use foo.ko files. I wonder why we don't have a standardized way of naming drivers, yet. Something like MODULE_AUTHOR, called MODULE_NAME. (Yes, I realize it won't work if the driver is built-in)
git log --oneline $fullname | head -n 10 echo "Copy and paste one of these subjects?" read unused
You should be reading through the patch manually anyway and the reviewer needs to read it manually. It's not like the 20 seconds it takes to consider which prefix to use is a big deal.
Sorry Dan, I couldn't catch what you meant by this. I guess my english slang is not *that* sharp. Thanks, Ezequiel.