From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.6.9-rc1-mm1: megaraid_mbox.c compile error with gcc 3.4
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 02:49:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408310249.00786.phillips@istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040828130419.57a56cdd.akpm@osdl.org>
Hi Andrew,
On Saturday 28 August 2004 16:04, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - Example Subject:
>
> [patch 2/5] ext2: improve scalability of bitmap searching
>
> - Note that various people's patch receiving scripts will strip away
> Subject: text which is inside brackets []. So you should place
> information which has no long-term relevance to the patch inside brackets.
> This includes the word "patch" and any sequence numbering. The subsystem
> identifier ("ext2:") should hence be outside brackets.
One nit: if you do it this way then when people sort their mail by subject
they end up with tossed subject salad, with your 2/5 sitting next to a whole
bunch of other people's 2/5's. So:
[patch] ext2: improve scalability of bitmap searching [2/5]
Regards,
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-31 6:48 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
2004-08-29 13:34 ` James Bottomley
2004-08-31 6:49 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
-- 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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