On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 14:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:51:51 -0700 Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

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People sometimes address this by using

	"drivers: net: ethernet: amd: use pci_zalloc_consistent"

which strikes me as utterly perverse.  We already have a nice way of
representing the hierarchy and that's using '/'.

I used to do that until several people complained.

Slap 'em.

And get booked for assault?  No thanks.
My mild-mannered persona thinks that a poor plan.

My actual feeling is I don't much care.

btw:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/15/387

I also proposed a scheme where the prescriptive
patch subject pedants could put some pattern
into MAINTAINERS so that these subject lines
could be more automatically generated.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/16/245

I don't know where this thing is coming from - I'd suspected there must
be some misguided doc somewhere but I don't know where it is.  Some
vast conspiracy against common sense.

I don't want to be overly proscriptive here, but it's a bit maddening
when you're skimming patch titles and cannot work out which part of the
kernel is being patched :(

Yup.