From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: The IrDA patches !!! (was Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 09:04:47 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200011111204.eABC4mY16907@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> of "Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:56:57 -0800." <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011101143330.990-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> said:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> >
> > I spent my full day going through my archives and splitting
> > the big patch of Dag into lots of small patches (see attached). I'm
> > glad I've got a big hard drive full of junk.
>
> When I say multiple mails, I mean multiple mails. NOT "26 attachements in
> one mail". In fact, not a single attachment at all, please. Send me
> patches as a regular text body, with the explanation at the top, and the
> patch just appended.
>
> Why?
>
> [Nice explanation snipped]
How about placing this (slightly edited, and with some other stuff thrown
in perhaps?) in a SUBMITTING-PATCHES file in the top of the kernel sources,
so nobody can overlook it?
--
Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011072030070.15254-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
2000-11-08 5:08 ` [RANT] Linux-IrDA status Michael Rothwell
2000-11-08 5:23 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <20001109192404.B25828@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
2000-11-10 3:50 ` The IrDA patches !!! (+ more flames) Jean Tourrilhes
2000-11-10 19:56 ` The IrDA patches !!! (was Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status) Linus Torvalds
2000-11-10 21:25 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2000-11-12 2:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-12 3:12 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2000-11-11 12:04 ` Horst von Brand [this message]
2000-11-08 7:26 ` [RANT] Linux-IrDA status Linus Torvalds
2000-11-08 8:14 ` Russell King
2000-11-08 12:15 ` [RANT] Linux-IrDA status, " Dag Brattli
2000-11-10 21:24 ` Pavel Machek
2000-11-08 12:31 ` Michael Rothwell
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