Re: [BNX2X RESUBMIT][PATCH 0/8] New driver for Broadcom 10Gb Ethernet, take two.

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:02:48 +0300 Matti Aarnio wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 02:34:45PM +0200, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
> > Message-ID: <470A23E5.6030102@broadcom.com>
> > Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:34:45 +0200
> > From: Eliezer Tamir <eliezert@broadcom.com>
> > User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728)
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > To: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org> (...)
> > Subject: [BNX2X RESUBMIT][PATCH 0/8] New driver for Broadcom 10Gb
> > 	Ethernet, take two.
> > X-WSS-ID: 6B14FC184VK13380170-01-01
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> > 
> > [resubmitting, this time without line breaks, sorry]
> 
> I am sorry, but you had no success in this round either.
> 
> Thunderbird is "somewhat"(*) difficult when you try to include the source
> (diff-) file into message body text.
> 
> (*: like "serious pain in the rear section..)
> 
> 
> The classical instruction is that "thy shall post source as diffs against
> baseline in email message textbody"  ---  but now your only real choice is
> in between using genuine attachments, and placing it into some public
> downloadable file, which the rest of the world can download - or to use
> the ATTACH -button.
> 
> Two failures with preferred method is (IMO) a good excuse to resort on
> MIME attachments.

In tbird v1.5x at least, the External Editor option works fine for me
to send patches inline.

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~Randy