Re: [PATCH] Patches for tiny 386 kernels, again. Linux kernel 2.6.22.7

Lennart Sorensen
2007-10-01T13:44:17Z

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:24:20PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I'll offer this suggestion, knowing it may piss you off, given the
> difficulty of preserving whitespace on *many* mailers without using
> attachments, and given that attachments can be saved easily without
> prying them out of the message, why don't you (one person) switch to a
> capable mail agent, if only for patches, instead of trying to teach many
> people to jump through hoops to avoid whitespace issues?
>
> Not criticizing, just seems easier for everybody for you to avoid
> teaching people things they don't find useful elsewhere, or getting
> discouraged and not bothering.

Ehm, so you want people to save the patch, then when replying they
should load the patch into their (much better) mail client where they
can comment on the patch? That is the reason the patch should be
inline. People need to comment on it just as they would comment on any
other plain text email.

Well that and some people use git to import patches from the email in a
mostly automated way which also expects them to have the info at top
with signed-off and then the patch, which attachments also screw up.

So yes there are good reasons for getting a non broken mail client when
sending patches to lkml.

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Len Sorensen