From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Allen Simpson Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/11]Optimize the upload speed for PPP connection. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:00:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4B037177.7060501@gmail.com> References: <20091117.012248.86306050.davem@davemloft.net> <4B0278D9.6030806@gmail.com> <13129.1258483787@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: huananhu@huawei.com, David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Return-path: Received: from mail-yx0-f187.google.com ([209.85.210.187]:35987 "EHLO mail-yx0-f187.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753908AbZKREAy (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:00:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <13129.1258483787@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > The '-- ' *convention* isn't even at the next layer up, MIME. If anything, > it's out at the liveware level (though some MUAs provide code to make it > a bit easier to deal with...) > Hey Valdis, nice to hear from you.... > (Feel free to cite RFC chapter-and-verse if you disagree, and note that > 'Informational' RFCs are never standards. ;) > Yeah, a quick check shows it's mentioned in MIME RFC-1341 (June 1992), but certainly going back to "Proposed standard for message encapsulation" RFC-934 (January 1985) at the very least. I seem to remember that Marshall or Stef or somebody used it for digest sections too, but don't remember the RFC number or a good search term. Still, (relevance here) a convention observed for patches.