Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:59:45 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Why not "attach" patches? |
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Some implementation-specific details people may find useful:
* For 4.xx versions of Netscape Mail, with standard mime types/prefs, sending patches by MIME attachment results in a readable text/plain message.
* The best way to mail patches is to pipe a header, patch description, and contents to "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t" or some other MTA. When I spam Linus or Marcelo with patches, my process looks like this:
1) create outgoing patches 2) change e-mail header template to reflect current kernel version 3) put template and blank space at top of each patch 4) "vi *.patch", manually insert descriptions and CC list from MAINTAINERS 5) review each patch and description once again :) 6) pipe *.patch individually through "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"
Here is the mail header template I use. Sendmail is smart and will insert all other headers like message-id and date, since they are not present. When using another MTA, make sure yours does this too.
> [jgarzik@rum g]$ cat ~/info/mail.linus > From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at mandrakesoft.com> > BCC: jgarzik at mandrakesoft.com > To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta.com> > CC: akpm at zip.com.au, davem at redhat.com > Subject: PATCH 2.5.2.9: net drvr >
As always, read Documentation/SubmittingPatches. That's what it's there for.
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