From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/18] 2.6.17.9 perfmon2 patch for review: introduction
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:56:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060823135652.b491468b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060823191132.GA13381@infradead.org>
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:11:32 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:58:57AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Padding with zeros makes it even more useful:
> > > >
> > > > [PATCH 00/17]
> > > > [PATCH 01/17]
> > > > ...
> > > > [PATCH 17/17]
> > >
> > > To be honest I utterly hate that convention
> >
> > It's so they'll correctly alphasort at the recipient's end.
>
> I suspect most mailers sort by date and not by subject anyway.
>
Emails arrive out-of-order.
I used to have a `sleep 10' in my patch-bomb script to fix that, but half
an hour is too long to be sitting there hoping the DSL stays up, the kernel
stays up and that the familial hair-drier+iron+air-conditioner conspiracy
doesn't strike.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-23 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-23 8:05 Stephane Eranian
2006-08-23 15:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-23 15:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-23 15:57 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-23 16:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-23 18:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-23 19:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-23 20:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-08-23 20:04 ` Stephane Eranian
2006-08-24 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
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