From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe@lists.linuxppc.org>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Correct way to submit a patch?
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:23:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020205112330.A28293@lists.linuxppc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020205161852.GL32707@opus.bloom.county>; from trini@kernel.crashing.org on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:18:52AM -0700
[ Tom Rini writes: ]
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:25:03PM -0600, Dave Wolfe wrote:
> >
> > [ benh@kernel.crashing.org writes: ]
> > >
> > > The proper way is to send it to this list, eventually CC'ed to one
> > > of the people in the MAINTAINERS file depending which type of machine
> > > is affected by it.
> >
> > I would suggest that patches be attached to the email.
>
> Please don't... I tend to take the Linus approach to this. I won't
> ignore attachments like him tho.. :)
Then you risk mangled patches, and I guarantee that patches in the
archives will be unusable since they're converted to HTML. I'm not fond
of attachments either, but this is one application of them that is
appropriate.
--
Dave Wolfe
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-04 7:43 Correct way to submit a patch? David Müller (ELSOFT AG)
2002-02-04 0:48 ` benh
2002-02-04 15:17 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-04 20:25 ` Dave Wolfe
2002-02-05 16:18 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-05 16:25 ` hollis
2002-02-05 9:04 ` Armin
2002-02-05 17:23 ` Dave Wolfe [this message]
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