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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Rewrite Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
On 07/15/2012 11:20 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:

> Heh,
> It seems as if googlemail is not a suited interface to contribute to linux.
>
> The raw patch (without clipped lines) can be found at
> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=3QKRZz2M
>
> Stefan
>
> 2012/7/15 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>:
>> On 07/13/2012 09:45 AM, Stefan Beller wrote:
>>> This updates the documentation on how to create patches and send
>>> these to the kernel mailing list.
>>>
>>> The documentation before was written in times before git was there,
>>> so the crafting of the patch needed to be done manually by diff -up
>>> in the right directory.
>>>
>>> This patch aims at simplifying the patch sending process, without
>>> breaking the output results.
>>
>> This patch is whitespace damaged (wordwrapped at the @@ lines), which is
>> either ironic or unfortunate. (After Alanis Morisette, I can't tell
>> anymore.)
>>
>>> A discussion can be found at
>>> https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/ekAxK9achsA
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
>>> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik jgarzik@pobox.com
>>
>> But other than that Jeff's objection was my big one, and that's
>> addressed in v2, so:
>>
>> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
>>
>> Rob
>> --


Q1. Who is going to merge the patch? Rob or someone else?

Q2. Are you (Stefan) going to send a patch that is mergeable?



--
~Randy


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