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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>,
	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] update SubmittingPatches to clarify attachment policy
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 21:31:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115343090.28496.9.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <427A9169.6050300@mesatop.com>

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 15:34 -0600, Steven Cole wrote:
> Paulo Marques wrote:
> > 
> > However if we Copy+Paste the patch into the mail it gets line wrapped / 
> > white space mangled.
> 
> That depends on where you are Copy+Pasting from.  Granted, Copy+Paste from
> a variety of sources is a nightmare.  But, Copy+Paste from Tbird to Tbird
> seems to actually work.
> 
> > 
> > So at least for Thunderbird users it would be better to use attached 
> > patches with "Content-Disposition: inline".
> > 
> 
> Here is a trick you can play with Thunderbird to get inlined patches:
> 
> 1) Mail the patch to yourself as an attachment.
> 2) Read the mail you just got, copy and paste the patch to your new message.
> 
> This method preserves the tabs/whitespace. Of course, you have to set the
> wordwrap settings appropriately. It works for me.

Personally, I don't understand people who can hack the kernel but
complain about bugs in their mail client.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-06  1:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-04 17:01 [RFC][PATCH] update SubmittingPatches to clarify attachment policy Dave Hansen
2005-05-04 17:10 ` Jon Smirl
2005-05-04 17:54   ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-05-04 18:23     ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-05  8:12       ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-05-05 16:43         ` Lee Revell
2005-05-05 17:31           ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-05-04 20:42   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-05-04 17:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-05-04 17:16 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-04 17:25   ` Dave Hansen
2005-05-04 17:55     ` Chris Wright
2005-05-04 18:14       ` Dave Hansen
2005-05-04 19:21         ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-05-05 19:06         ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-04 17:58     ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-05-04 18:52     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-05-04 19:28       ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-05-14 22:10         ` Domen Puncer
2005-05-04 17:59 ` John W. Linville
2005-05-05  1:09 ` Rik van Riel
2005-05-05  9:07   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-05-05 10:06   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-05-05 12:01     ` Paulo Marques
2005-05-05 21:34       ` Steven Cole
2005-05-06  1:31         ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-05-06  4:05           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
     [not found] <40vxU-1a1-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <40vRd-1os-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-05-05  2:36   ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>

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