Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:12:29 -0400 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: Move of input drivers, some word needed from you |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 08:35:43PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > Wrong.. patches should be posted/digested by list recipients. If > > subscribers can't be bothered to read patches, they should reconsider > > their initial application for acceptance to this list. I'll happily > > de-uuencode gunzip and whatever, but I _don't like_ to have to chase > > it down to see it. Please post patches.. _not_ URL's. > > Posting patches is generally a good thing (IMHO). Gziping them > is just plain ugly (also IMHO). > > On the other hand very big patches that do nothing else then > moving files around (like my patch) don't really have to be posted > to lkml. If I hadn't overssen the size of this patch, I would > probably have put it on ftp.
Patches that just move files around are better posted as a script (with mv commands) and a cleanup patch. Benefits are twofold: less bandwidth and makes the real changes more apparent.
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