Re: [PATCH] media: dvb_ca_en50221: Add a returing EBUSY logic into CA_RESET

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Em Sat, 1 Feb 2025 09:44:18 +0900
YongSu Yoo <yongsuyoo0215@gmail.com> escreveu:

> Dear Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> 
> I know how to send an E-mail using "....git send-email --to .."
> But,
> I do not know how to reply to this E-mail loop using "....git send-email
> --to .."
> Can you kindly guide me ?

Never used git send-email to reply, as it is mainly focused on sending
e-mails, not being a true emailer: it just sends e-mail: it doesn't
receive. In thesis, you could download the original e-mail using b4 or lei, 
then manually write a reply text on it and use git send-email. This is
easier said than done, as you'll need to take care of SMTP headers yourself.
This would require some knowledge about SMTP RFCs.

If I were you, I would seek for some other alternatives.

Most people use mutt for Kernel work, as it is CLI. There is also alpine
I haven't used alpine for ages, but it is a decent CLI e-mail client, using
a very simple interface, although it has less features than mutt.

I prefer instead to use claws-mail as it has a reasonable GUI, it is fast
and it is not overbloated with features I won't use.

Neither mutt, alpine or claws-mail mangle whitespaces and line breaks on
e-mails, and they can be setup to not do top-postings.

If you want something simpler, perhaps you could try notmuch[1]. I never
tried myself, but I heard it can be used to reply to e-mails without even
needing to subscribe to a ML.

[1] https://notmuchmail.org/

You may also find useful to have a SMTP relay server. Probably one of the
simplest ones to setup is msmtp: https://marlam.de/msmtp/.

I hope that helps.

Regards,
Mauro


> 
> 2024년 5월 31일 (금) 오전 3:31, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>님이 작성:
> 
> > Em Tue, 28 May 2024 21:14:37 +0900
> > YongSu Yoo <yongsuyoo0215@gmail.com> escreveu:
> >  
> > > Dear Markus Elfring  
> >
> > Please don't top-post. Makes hard to follow the comments.  
> > >
> > >
> > > 2024년 5월 28일 (화) 오후 2:38, Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>님이 작성:
> > >  
> > > >
> > > > …  
> > > > > For preventing this problem from happening, we make CA_RESET ioctl do
> > > > > nothing and only return EBUSY if the ioctl is called during the
> > > > > "transiting" states.  
> > > >
> > > > Would you like to avoid any typos (in the summary phrase)?  
> >  
> > > Initially, I sent this E-mail using the below command
> > > "....git send-email --to  mchehab@kernel.org,
> > > linux-media@vger.kernel.org, xxxxxxxxxxx.patch. ..."  
> >
> > Git send-email is a good way to send patches. You may also use
> > a decent e-mail client that won't mangle with whitespaces. I use
> > myself claws-mail; other develpers use emacs. Feel free to pick your
> > poison, but if the email doesn't handle whitespaces well and/or
> > don't allow writing the answers below the original comments (instead
> > of top-posting), it shouldn't be used.
> >  
> > > In response to what you suggested, is it OK if I use Gmail and attach
> > > a new patch ?  
> >
> > No. Never attach a patch as the mailing list will reject, and if not,
> > patchwork.linuxtv.org won't pick it.
> >
> > You may use gmail, if you setup your e-mail client to use it as a
> > SMTP server. Using webmail solutions typically won't work open source
> > discussions, as it does lots of wrong things, like top-posting, not
> > honoring 80 columns on emails and/or mangling tabs and white spaces.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mauro
> >  



Thanks,
Mauro