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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Campbell <jon@nerdgrounds.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Patches for tiny 386 kernels, again. Linux kernel   2.6.22.7
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:24:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FD7104.9070609@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070924104940.50a52cf3.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Randy Dunlap wrote:

> This seems reasonable, so I tried to use it.  Here are the results
> and comments and meta-comments.
> 
> 
> 1.  Please forcibly wrap text lines in mail body at around column 70-72.
> 
> 2.  Put patches inline in the mail body, not as attachments.
> 
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.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-28 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-24  8:51 [PATCH] Patches for tiny 386 kernels, again. Linux kernel 2.6.22.7 Jonathan Campbell
2007-09-24 17:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-26 18:42   ` Jonathan Campbell
2007-09-26 22:06     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-26 23:20     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-26 23:44       ` Jonathan Campbell
     [not found]       ` <46FAEE97.7090902@nerdgrounds.com>
2007-09-26 23:47         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-26 23:49           ` Jonathan Campbell
2007-09-28 21:24   ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2007-09-28 21:56     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-01 13:44     ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-10-01 14:28       ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-02  4:48         ` Willy Tarreau
2007-09-24 19:09 ` Dave Jones
2007-09-25  4:45   ` Andrey Panin
2007-09-25  7:28   ` Jan Engelhardt

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