Re: Correct way to submit a patch?

hollis@austin.ibm.com wrote:

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:18:52AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:

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On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:25:03PM -0600, Dave Wolfe wrote:

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[ benh@kernel.crashing.org writes: ]

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The proper way is to send it to this list, eventually CC'ed to one
of the people in the MAINTAINERS file depending which type of machine
is affected by it.

I would suggest that patches be attached to the email.

Please don't...  I tend to take the Linus approach to this.  I won't
ignore attachments like him tho.. :)

He makes a good point about list archives though... if the patch is inline,
you're left copying and pasting out of a web browser, which has all sorts of
formatting problems (like indentation, "<", etc).

If you send as an attachment (not gzipped, just plain text) then most mail
readers can read it inline *and* it will be saved in pristin form in the list
archives.

-Hollis

It seams to me that if I want someone else to check in my patch, I
certainly don't want to make more work for them.  In my experience,
plain text does not all ways work.

armin


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