Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86, mm: Fix incorrect data type in vmalloc_sync_all()

H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-20T20:14:24Z

On 10/20/2010 01:10 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:53:43PM -0700
>
>> (This is a constant problem, by the way: people seems to want to prefix,
>> not suffix, their commentary; "cover letter" style.) I suspect git
>> needs to change, but it's hard to know exactly how to change it.
>
> That's easy, remove the cover letter style when inlining patches further
> down the mail.

The problem is that right now, if there is text like this:

A
---
B

patch

A is retained, and B discarded. When to discard A and when to discard B
is the hard part.

> But yeah, I'm still trying to decide for me which mail attribution
> format (set attribution="..." in mutt) is better/clearer:
>
> From: foo
> Date: bar
>
> or
>
> On <date>, <person> said:
>
> Hmm...
>

Well, the latter can at least be edited out.

The former *really* gunks up git.

-hpa