From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261219AbVAMAGw (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:06:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261342AbVAMAGm (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:06:42 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:46243 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261597AbVALXzb (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:55:31 -0500 Message-ID: <41E5B8B6.8050204@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:54:30 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Max Krasnyansky CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BK] TUN/TAP driver update and fixes for 2.6.BK References: <41E5A5DA.1010301@qualcomm.com> <41E5B077.8030300@pobox.com> <41E5B7DC.8020301@qualcomm.com> In-Reply-To: <41E5B7DC.8020301@qualcomm.com> 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 Max Krasnyansky wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Non-technical comments: >> >> 1) Please send drivers/net patches to me and netdev@oss.sgi.com > > Ok > >> 2) Consider using the bk-make-sum script (in Documentation/BK-usage/) >> to generate your summary. This will add a "bk pull " prefix to your >> BK url particularly, making it even easier to cut-n-paste. > > I do use bk-make-sum. A bit hacked version though which does not add > 'bk pull' prefix. I'll put it back in if it's useful for folks. > >> 3) Please include a patch in your submission so that list readers may >> review your changes, not just the BK users. > > Anybody can go to bkbits.net and review them. I'd rather not send > patches along with BK stuff, unless that's a new rule or something :). It's not a new rule, it's an old rule :) Changes need exposure and review _before_ they get merged and hit the kernel. This is part of how Linux has always worked. It's trivial to generate such a patch and include it in your email, using the gcapatch script in Documentation/BK-usage/ Jeff