From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: marcos.mage@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove quotes of maintaners's names
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:01:20 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111027.230120.1348321590012576474.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <610B86C6-622E-4EFE-89DF-BF09BDB4D765@intel.com>
From: "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:35:54 -0700
> The reason these names are in quotes is because they need to be
> wrapped in quotes when used in a git patch (I.e. CC: "David
> S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>) because of the . in the friendly
> name.
That's correct, if a character such as "." appears in an email
header field it must be surrounded by double quotes, as per
SMTP rules.
VGER rejects any email where this rule is not followed properly.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-28 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1319739381-5244-1-git-send-email-marcos.mage@gmail.com>
2011-10-27 21:35 ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove quotes of maintaners's names Kirsher, Jeffrey T
2011-10-27 21:53 ` Sam Ravnborg
[not found] ` <alpine.LNX.2.00.1110271845200.8311@darkstar.example.net>
2011-10-27 22:26 ` Jeff Kirsher
2011-10-28 3:01 ` David Miller [this message]
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