From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755526Ab0JTUOY (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:14:24 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47866 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755355Ab0JTUOX (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:14:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4CBF4D78.1050404@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:13:44 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , "mingo@redhat.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com" , "linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86, mm: Fix incorrect data type in vmalloc_sync_all() References: <20101020103642.GA3135@kryptos.osrc.amd.com> <20101020195046.GB16147@aftab> <4CBF48C7.3050306@linux.intel.com> <20101020201055.GA3971@kryptos.osrc.amd.com> In-Reply-To: <20101020201055.GA3971@kryptos.osrc.amd.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/20/2010 01:10 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > From: "H. Peter Anvin" > Date: Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:53:43PM -0700 > >> (This is a constant problem, by the way: people seems to want to prefix, >> not suffix, their commentary; "cover letter" style.) I suspect git >> needs to change, but it's hard to know exactly how to change it. > > That's easy, remove the cover letter style when inlining patches further > down the mail. The problem is that right now, if there is text like this: A --- B patch A is retained, and B discarded. When to discard A and when to discard B is the hard part. > But yeah, I'm still trying to decide for me which mail attribution > format (set attribution="..." in mutt) is better/clearer: > > From: foo > Date: bar > > or > > On , said: > > Hmm... > Well, the latter can at least be edited out. The former *really* gunks up git. -hpa