From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754829AbZB1R1y (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:27:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752779AbZB1R1r (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:27:47 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41423 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752752AbZB1R1q (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:27:46 -0500 Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:27:07 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Alex Riesen cc: trivial@kernel.org, Stefan Richter , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use a format string for linux_banner In-Reply-To: <20090228133602.GA28239@blimp.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <81b0412b0902250104q53f38343o303e980c1446ed3e@mail.gmail.com> <49A92783.1010709@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20090228133602.GA28239@blimp.localdomain> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Alex Riesen wrote: > > > > Please send patches as inline text or at least as plaintext attachment > > in ascii encoding. linux/Documentation/email-clients.txt has help. > > Couldn't. Had to either choose the corporate firewal and gmail, or the > Exchange-thing. Both will corrupt patches, unless send as attachment. > Decided not to expose the corporate mail address. Well, I _can_ tell you that I just ignore patches that I can't see directly in my email reader. Others may pick them up, but for me it's an issue of "ok, I can't easily even see the patch, and the person didn't bother to do it right - it's not worth my time". What people _can_ do is to send it both as a crazy attachment _and_ as plaintext. If they plaintext gets corrupted, the attachment still works, and the plaintext is at least somethign I can see and thus in my mail reader decide whether it's worth my time to save the attachment and look at it outside the mail reader. Linus