From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: A very stupid question about formatting a patch :)
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:23:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160818102342.GB20476@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160818130843.6d822561@e733>
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 01:08:43PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> > I don't see anyone removing that line, perhaps you aren't looking at
> > the patch properly in an email client?
> >
> > Leave it in there, it's good to have.
>
> There is way too much traffic in LMKL for me to read it with e-mail
> client. This is why I'm using lkml.org. Here are just a few random
> patches that were sent today:
>
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/18/160
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/18/155
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/18/131
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/18/123
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/18/120
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/18/98
>
> No empty lines. Maybe in fact there are empty lines but lkml.org
> removed them?
Yup, it looks that way, the above patches all have that line in them
when I look at the real emails.
I recommend using a real email client when dealing with patches, allmost
all web interfaces will mess them up.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-18 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-18 9:46 A very stupid question about formatting a patch :) Aleksander Alekseev
2016-08-18 9:52 ` Greg KH
2016-08-18 10:08 ` Aleksander Alekseev
2016-08-18 10:23 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-08-18 10:32 ` John Koepi
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