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Subject: Re: mtd-utils: fec.c uses bcopy()
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 17:06 +1100, Mitch Davis wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>=20
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 00:56, Mitch Davis wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>> use `git diff` to generate a diff instead of posting the entire file
> >>> as an attachment.
> >>
> > sorry, my mistake
> >
> >>> really you should use git to send the patch
> >>
> >> Do you mean a git push?
> >
> > no.  use the send-email function.  read `man git-send-email` for more i=
nfo.
>=20
>  - Who is best told about the broken git info links on the MTD git web pa=
ge?
>=20
>  - This process of submitting stuff with git-send-email is not
> documented on the MTD page, but newbies should use it anyway.  Can I
> suggest the howto on the MTD page be updated to avoid people like me
> getting it wrong?
>  - On my machine (Fedora 9) git-send-email is part of the git-email
> package, not standard git.  Others may benefit from knowing this if
> it's part of that updated page.

MTD web site source may be found at:
git://git.infradead.org/mtd-www.git

Please, feel free to add such a HOWTO and send a patch.

--=20
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90=
=D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC)