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rfc: Updating SubmittingPatches with [RFC PATCH] and/or [WIP PATCH]

From Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject rfc: Updating SubmittingPatches with [RFC PATCH] and/or [WIP PATCH]
Date 2016-09-07 21:50 +0200
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On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 17:38 +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Sep 2016, Joe Perches wrote:
[]
> > And another patch series prefix that could be used
> > instead of RFC is WIP.
> Certainly sounds reasonable. Is there a difference in the meaning?

Request for Comment and Work In Progress differences:

Maybe add something like this to Documentation/SubmittingPatches
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 8c79f1d..aa76057 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -404,6 +404,12 @@ convention to prefix your subject line with [PATCH].  This 
 and other kernel developers more easily distinguish patches from other
 e-mail discussions.
 
+If the patch or patch series is just a proposal to garner comments
+use [RFC PATCH] before each patch subject.
+
+If the patch or patch seriies is incomplete or possibly contains known
+defects and you would like others to see the work to date use
+[WIP PATCH] before each patch subject.
 
 
 11) Sign your work

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[PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-09-06 15:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2016-09-06 15:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-09-06 15:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-09-06 17:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2016-09-06 18:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-09-07 12:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2016-09-07 13:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-09-07 14:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2016-09-07 15:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-09-07 17:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2016-09-07 18:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-09-07 18:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2016-09-07 18:40 +0200
                rfc: Updating SubmittingPatches with [RFC PATCH] and/or [WIP PATCH] Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-09-07 21:50 +0200
                Re: rfc: Updating SubmittingPatches with [RFC PATCH] and/or [WIP  PATCH] Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2016-09-07 23:50 +0200

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