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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.6.9-rc1-mm1: megaraid_mbox.c compile error with gcc 3.4
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 02:49:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408310249.00786.phillips@istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040828130419.57a56cdd.akpm@osdl.org>

Hi Andrew,

On Saturday 28 August 2004 16:04, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - Example Subject:
>
> 	[patch 2/5] ext2: improve scalability of bitmap searching
>
> - Note that various people's patch receiving scripts will strip away
>   Subject: text which is inside brackets [].  So you should place
>   information which has no long-term relevance to the patch inside brackets. 
>   This includes the word "patch" and any sequence numbering.  The subsystem
>   identifier ("ext2:") should hence be outside brackets.

One nit: if you do it this way then when people sort their mail by subject 
they end up with tossed subject salad, with your 2/5 sitting next to a whole 
bunch of other people's 2/5's.  So:

    [patch] ext2: improve scalability of bitmap searching [2/5]

Regards,

Daniel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-31  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-28 16:29 [patch] 2.6.9-rc1-mm1: megaraid_mbox.c compile error with gcc 3.4 Mukker, Atul
2004-08-28 20:04 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 20:04   ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 20:17   ` Lee Revell
2004-08-29 13:34   ` James Bottomley
2004-08-31  6:49   ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-30 13:05 Mukker, Atul
2004-08-30 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-26  8:47 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-08-28  9:06 ` [patch] 2.6.9-rc1-mm1: megaraid_mbox.c compile error with gcc 3.4 Adrian Bunk

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