From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967991AbWK3X6W (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:58:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967992AbWK3X6V (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:58:21 -0500 Received: from sp604003mt.neufgp.fr ([84.96.92.56]:41869 "EHLO smTp.neuf.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967991AbWK3X6V (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:58:21 -0500 Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:58:18 +0100 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: Re: [GFS2 & DLM] Guide to -nmw tree patches To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: arjan@infradead.org, swhiteho@redhat.com, Vincent Legoll Message-id: <456F701A.8090102@online.fr> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary_(ID_OaUAEwlUxzKFwZeYL/VtZQ)" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061110) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_OaUAEwlUxzKFwZeYL/VtZQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Proper email threading is important for web ML archives too... How does the attached read to a native english speaker ? Suggestions to put that elsewhere, or better phrasing... Or maybe, as per akpm's tpp document suggest, this introductory emails should be forbidden^wdiscouraged, and the text properly dispatched in the apropriate changelogs ? P.S.: I'm not subscribed, and couldn't find a way to do a proper reply to Arjan's message, so, sorry to break the proposed rule myself... -- Vincent Legoll --Boundary_(ID_OaUAEwlUxzKFwZeYL/VtZQ) Content-type: text/plain; name=submittingpatches.gitpatch Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline; filename=submittingpatches.gitpatch Add a suggestion to properly thread patch series Discussion started in thread form 2006-11-30: Re: [GFS2 & DLM] Guide to -nmw tree patches --- commit dbdb1b56acc95508e720ba6fb04ebf8c4a5089fd tree 6ef01b1ae85c24cb2643ef4c1de541fbfb9b583d parent 0215ffb08ce99e2bb59eca114a99499a4d06e704 author Vincent Legoll Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:03:46 +0100 committer Vincent Legoll Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:03:46 +0100 Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 302d148..00f96c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ in your patch description. If you cannot condense your patch set into a smaller set of patches, then only post say 15 or so at a time and wait for review and integration. +If your patch set is not trivial, and you want to introduce the series +with a presentation email, please post all the patches as a reply to that +introduction, so that the whole email set is properly threaded. 4) Select e-mail destination. --Boundary_(ID_OaUAEwlUxzKFwZeYL/VtZQ)--