From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nd215.dnsexit.com ([64.182.102.215]:47008 "EHLO box7.911domain.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932525Ab1D2XJr (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:09:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4DBB450E.7080208@verizon.net> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:09:02 -0400 From: Peter Foley Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/7] kbuild: move scripts/basic/docproc.c to scripts/docproc.c References: <4DBB3DD4.9000000@verizon.net> <20110429154649.848f9ba8.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20110429154649.848f9ba8.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Randy Dunlap Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek On 4/29/2011 6:46 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:38:12 -0400 Peter Foley wrote: > >> This patchset moves scripts/basic/docproc to scripts/docproc. >> This causes docproc to only be built for *doc targets rather than every >> time the kernel is compiled. >> >> Patches also attached as requested by Michal Marek. > > > That's disappointing (the attachments). Why was this requested? > > See Documentation/CodingStyle, section 7: > > "No MIME, no links, no compression, no attachments. Just plain text." > > > It also causes breakage in other people's patch merging/testing. > E.g., I cannot save any one of these emails as I can with other patches > and get a useful patch file. Instead, the saved file contains lines like > this (below) and each patch 2 times (inline and attachment). > > --------------060706070408040606010200 > Content-Type: text/plain; > name="kbuild-update-DocBook-Makefile-in-preperation-for-mo.patch" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename="kbuild-update-DocBook-Makefile-in-preperation-for-mo.patch" > > > > --- > ~Randy > *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/29/89 for the attachment request. My current email client (thunderbird) seems to mangle any patches that I send. If anybody can suggest an email client that doesn't mangle patches I'll be happy to try it. Thanks, Peter