From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751723AbWF2Eov (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:44:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751731AbWF2Eov (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:44:51 -0400 Received: from cpe-72-226-39-15.nycap.res.rr.com ([72.226.39.15]:6922 "EHLO mail.cyberdogtech.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751722AbWF2Eov (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:44:51 -0400 From: "Matt LaPlante" To: "'Randy.Dunlap'" Cc: Subject: RE: [Patch] Attack of "the the"s in /arch Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:44:12 -0400 Message-ID: <001f01c69b36$aabf4980$fe01a8c0@cyberdogt42> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcabNaDNPSmoB8/xTb6tTLZAvsJbqQAAMz0g X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 In-Reply-To: <20060628213924.50f29a4a.rdunlap@xenotime.net> X-Spam-Processed: mail.cyberdogtech.com, Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:44:22 -0400 (not processed: message from trusted or authenticated source) X-Return-Path: laplam@rpi.edu X-Envelope-From: laplam@rpi.edu X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-MDAV-Processed: mail.cyberdogtech.com, Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:44:22 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Randy.Dunlap [mailto:rdunlap@xenotime.net] > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:39 AM > To: Matt LaPlante > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [Patch] Attack of "the the"s in /arch > > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:06:25 -0400 Matt LaPlante wrote: > [me] > > Hi Matt, > > The only problem that I see is that your mail client or server > breaks some (longer) lines where they should not be split, > so the patch cannot be applied with 'patch'. > > E.g.: > > > diff -ru a/arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/arch-lpd7a40x.c > > b/arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/arch-lpd7a40x.c > > --- a/arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/arch-lpd7a40x.c 2006-06-28 > > 23:20:26.000000000 -0400 > > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/arch-lpd7a40x.c 2006-06-28 > > 23:45:49.000000000 -0400 > > Above should be 3 lines: > diff ... > --- ... > +++ ... > > but it is broken into 6 lines. Your options are (e.g.): > > - use (some) Linux client to send email (not all are good for patches) > - on Windows: use thunderbird or sylpheed or (last resort, not > really good since it makes reviewing & sending feedback on patches > more difficult on us) is to use attachments. Please don't go for > the last resort. > > Sylpheed (sylpheed.good-day.net) supports inserting a file into > the email body, which is perfect (at least on Linux it does, > I hope that it does on Windows too). > Tbird is more of a problem, but can do done. If you care to use > tbird, take a look at > http://mbligh.org/linuxdocs/Email/Clients/Thunderbird > and > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/27/191 > and > http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/kernel-janitors/2006-June/006478.html > for details on how to use it (on Linux, hopefully Windows is > about the same). > > Try not to use attachments... > > Oh, there are other split lines in your patch. After joining all of > the split lines (10-12 of them), the patch applies cleanly except > for one file. I'm applying it to 2.6.17-git13. What kernel version > did you use to make it? You should use a very current version. > > --- > ~Randy I used git13 as well. I've actually got some more typo fixes ready to submit, so I will find a better mailing method separately, then post them. Thanks for the feedback. - Matt