Re: [RESEND][PATCH] Rewrite Documentation/SubmittingPatches.

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On 07/23/2012 12:20 AM, Stefan Beller wrote:

> On 07/23/2012 06:45 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
>> On 07/22/2012 12:56 AM, Stefan Beller wrote:
>>
>>>   Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>>>   1 file changed, 116 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
>>> index c379a2a..ac00451 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
>>> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
>>> @@ -163,9 +157,9 @@ Do not send more than 15 patches at once to the vger mailing lists!!!
>>>   Linus Torvalds is the final arbiter of all changes accepted into the
>>> -Linux kernel.  His e-mail address is <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>.
>>> +Linux kernel.  His e-mail address is <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>.
>>
>> what are the changes on the line above and below, please?
>>
>>>   He gets a lot of e-mail, so typically you should do your best to -avoid-
>>> -sending him e-mail.
>>> +sending him e-mail.
>>
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
> There used to be a whitespace after each of both lines, but my mailprogram removed them, so in
> the actually sent patch they seem to be equal. :/
> 


then you'll probably need to resend the patch so that it will apply
cleanly, but that's up to whoever is going to apply/merge it.


thanks,
-- 
~Randy