From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757622AbZADM5j (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 07:57:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750803AbZADM5b (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 07:57:31 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:44500 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750795AbZADM5a (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 07:57:30 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 13:57:13 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Baodong Chen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/x86/boot.txt:payload length was changed to payload_length Message-ID: <20090104125713.GD15472@elte.hu> References: <20090102092659.GC1975@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Baodong Chen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Baodong Chen 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