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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Mukker, Atul" <Atulm@lsil.com>,
	bunk@fs.tum.de, sreenib@lsil.com, Manojj@lsil.com,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.6.9-rc1-mm1: megaraid_mbox.c compile error with gcc 3.4
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:17:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093724235.8611.67.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040828130419.57a56cdd.akpm@osdl.org>

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 16:04, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Mukker, Atul" <Atulm@lsil.com> wrote:
> >
> > The driver and the patches with the re-ordered functions is available at
> >  ftp://ftp.lsil.com/pub/linux-megaraid/drivers/version-2.20.3.1/
> 
> I dunno about James, but I *really* dislike receiving patches by going and
> getting them from internet servers.  It breaks our commonly-used tools.  It
> loses authorship info.  It loses Signed-off-by: info.  There is no
> changelog.  All this means that your patch is more likely to be ignored by
> busy people.  Please, just email the diffs.
> 

The FAQ should be updated, as it recommends posting a link to large
patches, rather than splitting them up and posting that way.

Of course, there is a lot in the FAQ that needs updating...

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-28 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-28 16:29 [patch] 2.6.9-rc1-mm1: megaraid_mbox.c compile error with gcc 3.4 Mukker, Atul
2004-08-28 20:04 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 20:17   ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-08-29 13:34   ` James Bottomley
2004-08-31  6:49   ` Daniel Phillips
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-30 13:05 Mukker, Atul
2004-08-30 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-26  8:47 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-08-28  9:06 ` [patch] 2.6.9-rc1-mm1: megaraid_mbox.c compile error with gcc 3.4 Adrian Bunk

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