From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g1FGA6126302 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:10:06 -0800 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (a1as07-p91.stg.tli.de [195.252.188.91]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g1FGA0926287 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:10:00 -0800 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g1FF61R01153; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:06:01 +0100 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:06:01 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Guido Guenther , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: ip22 watchdog timer Message-ID: <20020215160601.A845@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <20020215152132.A602@dea.linux-mips.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:41:49PM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:41:49PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > How true. MIME - broken solution for a broken design ;) More serious, > > Why broken? It's not broken for what it was invented to, i.e. for > passing unsafe characters via SMTP. Source patches do not qualify as > containing such. The transition time from pre-MIME to MIME was pretty painful. If you'd have gone through the same pains that I did during the MIME introduction you'd probably understand why I call it a broken fix for a broken system. Fortunately now that the childhood problems have been solved MIME looks alot saner but still I prefer plaintext for patches. Ralf