From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262628AbULPBbw (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:31:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262594AbULPB3b (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:29:31 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:64701 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262612AbULPB1O (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:27:14 -0500 Message-ID: <41C0E66E.20000@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:35:42 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Michal Schmidt , Alessandro Amici , Miguel Angel Flores , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel development environment References: <41B22EDE.2060009@stud.feec.vutbr.cz><41B1F97A.80803@sombragris.com> <1102200355.28776.58.camel@krustophenia.net> In-Reply-To: <1102200355.28776.58.camel@krustophenia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 22:40 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote: > >>Lee Revell wrote: >> >>>In case you did not get the joke, Mozilla Mail is one of the WORST mail >>>clients for handling kernel patches. See the list archives. >> >>Mozilla works fine if you send patches as attachments. >> > > > I still say it's broken. > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/22/488 The process of drag and drop converts tabs to blanks, among other evils. You are arguing about the best way to do the wrong thing, like rewriting a bubble sort in assembler. The correct tool is attach to preserve whatever is in the original. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979