public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Baodong Chen <chenbdchenbd@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/x86/boot.txt:payload length was changed to payload_length
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 13:57:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090104125713.GD15472@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d204e3110901022044l2cf57f54yd52a2d331d69deef@mail.gmail.com>


* Baodong Chen <chenbdchenbd@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> > * Baodong Chen <chenbdchenbd@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>  Documentation/x86/boot.txt:payload length was changed to payload_length
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Baodong Chen <[email]chenbdchenbd@gmail.com[email]>
> >>
> >> ---
> >>  Documentation/x86/boot.txt |    2 +-
> >>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > looks good but the patch was whitespace damaged (all tabs were spaces and
> > there were linewraps as well), please check
> > Documentation/email-clients.txt and resend the patch. Thanks,
> >
> >        Ingo
> 
> I referred to Documentation/email-clients.txt:Gmail and resent the 
> patch. I am a newbie,if i made any mistake,please do me a favor and help 
> me.Thanks!

it's OK, and your resubmission was better - but it still had a linewrap 
problem (i was able to fix that up manually).

this bit:

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Protocol 2.07:        (Kernel 2.6.24) Added paravirtualised
boot protocol.
                and KEEP_SEGMENTS flag in load_flags.

[3 lines]

should have been:

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Protocol 2.07:        (Kernel 2.6.24) Added paravirtualised boot protocol.
                and KEEP_SEGMENTS flag in load_flags.

[2 lines]

If you post from gmail it might make sense to send patches as MIME 
attachments, we can process them just fine. (as long as you send patches 
that go via -tip - other maintainers have different policies regarding 
MIME attachments)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-04 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-02  8:24 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/x86/boot.txt:payload length was changed to payload_length Baodong Chen
2009-01-02  9:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-03  4:44   ` Baodong Chen
2009-01-04 12:57     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-01-04 13:49       ` Baodong Chen
2009-01-04 13:55       ` Jesper Juhl

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20090104125713.GD15472@elte.hu \
    --to=mingo@elte.hu \
    --cc=chenbdchenbd@gmail.com \
    --cc=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=trivial@kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox