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From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
To: "Jayson R. King" <dev@jaysonking.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] BFS backport to 2.6.27
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:34:48 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACA2730.7000006@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ACA188B.1020108@jaysonking.com>

Jayson R. King wrote:
> David Newall wrote:
>   
>> Shouldn't patches be sent as attachments?
>>     
>
> Not according to Documentation/SubmittingPatches

Yes, I was trying for irony.  Mime has been around for many decades and
anybody claiming that they can't cope with them is probably very stupid
or lying to make some strange point.  Anyway, I'm not trying to change
the policy, but was only have a snide dig, en passant, at the crufty,
old, has-been attitude that it represents.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-05 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-05  9:16 [PATCH 0/4] BFS backport to 2.6.27 Jayson R. King
2009-10-05  9:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] fix scaled & unscaled cputime accounting Jayson R. King
2009-10-05  9:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] idle " Jayson R. King
2009-10-05  9:46 ` [PATCH 3/4] sched: account system time properly Jayson R. King
2009-10-05  9:46 ` [PATCH 4/4] BFS backport to 2.6.27 Jayson R. King
2009-10-05 10:02 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Jayson R. King
2009-10-05 10:26 ` Jayson R. King
2009-10-05 14:12   ` David Newall
2009-10-05 16:02     ` Jayson R. King
2009-10-05 17:04       ` David Newall [this message]
2009-10-05 20:20         ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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