From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752702Ab2GPPG7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:06:59 -0400 Received: from oproxy6-pub.bluehost.com ([67.222.54.6]:41832 "HELO oproxy6-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751085Ab2GPPG4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:06:56 -0400 Message-ID: <50042DDD.6050008@xenotime.net> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:06:05 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110323 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Beller CC: Rob Landley , Jeff Garzik , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rewrite Documentation/SubmittingPatches. References: <50032F24.8050903@landley.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:smtp auth 50.53.38.135 authed with rdunlap@xenotime.net} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/15/2012 11:20 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: > Heh, > It seems as if googlemail is not a suited interface to contribute to linux. > > The raw patch (without clipped lines) can be found at > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=3QKRZz2M > > Stefan > > 2012/7/15 Rob Landley : >> On 07/13/2012 09:45 AM, Stefan Beller wrote: >>> This updates the documentation on how to create patches and send >>> these to the kernel mailing list. >>> >>> The documentation before was written in times before git was there, >>> so the crafting of the patch needed to be done manually by diff -up >>> in the right directory. >>> >>> This patch aims at simplifying the patch sending process, without >>> breaking the output results. >> >> This patch is whitespace damaged (wordwrapped at the @@ lines), which is >> either ironic or unfortunate. (After Alanis Morisette, I can't tell >> anymore.) >> >>> A discussion can be found at >>> https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/ekAxK9achsA >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller >>> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik jgarzik@pobox.com >> >> But other than that Jeff's objection was my big one, and that's >> addressed in v2, so: >> >> Acked-by: Rob Landley >> >> Rob >> -- Q1. Who is going to merge the patch? Rob or someone else? Q2. Are you (Stefan) going to send a patch that is mergeable? -- ~Randy