From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:04:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4505DD51.5090000@garzik.org> References: <45021D4A.6040805@lwfinger.net> <20060909152305.GA27080@tuxdriver.com> <4502E62B.5060601@lwfinger.net> <20060911192846.GB19326@tuxdriver.com> <4505C005.2070302@lwfinger.net> <20060911203458.GD19326@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Larry Finger , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stefano Brivio , Michael Buesch , Broadcom Linux Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:14018 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932154AbWIKWEI (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:04:08 -0400 To: "John W. Linville" In-Reply-To: <20060911203458.GD19326@tuxdriver.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:59:01PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> John W. Linville wrote: > >>> Also, if you could just use "---" instead of a long line of "======", >>> I think I would have to do less manual processing...thanks! >> Sorry about the === rather than ---. Is that documented somewhere? > > Not too explicitly, but I think Andrew mentions it in "The Perfect Patch": > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt > > While you are looking, you might review Jeff's version of the same idea: > > http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html And also Documentation/SubmittingPatches, which ATM seems to have more detail than either page. Jeff