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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Henne <henne@nachtwindheim.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata-piix: kerneldoc-error-on-ata_piixc.patch 2nd try
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:13:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45183880.40003@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060925131151.4f73612c.rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> I agree with all of these except #4.  Maybe you can reconcile your
> preference with that in Documentation/SubmittingPatches, which
> contains:
> 
> <quote>
> The canonical patch message body contains the following:
> 
>   - A "from" line specifying the patch author.
> </quote>
> 
> A patch submitter should not need to know the patch receiver's
> personal preferences and vary patches based on those.


It's not a personal preference.  It's all based on git-applymbox, pretty 
much.

The SubmittingPatches doc should be updated to clarify that a From line 
is not needed in the email body, if it is the same as the From line in 
the RFC822 header.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-25 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-25 18:58 [PATCH] ata-piix: kerneldoc-error-on-ata_piixc.patch 2nd try Henne
2006-09-25 19:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-25 20:11   ` Randy Dunlap
2006-09-25 20:13     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-09-25 20:37       ` Henne
2006-09-25 21:23         ` Randy Dunlap

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