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SubjectRe: Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/x86/boot.txt:payload length was changed to payload_length
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> * Baodong Chen <chenbdchenbd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > >
> > > * Baodong Chen <chenbdchenbd@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Documentation/x86/boot.txt:payload length was changed to payload_length
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Baodong Chen <[email]chenbdchenbd@gmail.com[email]>
> > >>
> > >> ---
> > >> Documentation/x86/boot.txt | 2 +-
> > >> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > looks good but the patch was whitespace damaged (all tabs were spaces and
> > > there were linewraps as well), please check
> > > Documentation/email-clients.txt and resend the patch. Thanks,
> > >
> > > Ingo
> >
> > I referred to Documentation/email-clients.txt:Gmail and resent the
> > patch. I am a newbie,if i made any mistake,please do me a favor and help
> > me.Thanks!
>
> it's OK, and your resubmission was better - but it still had a linewrap
> problem (i was able to fix that up manually).
>
> this bit:
>
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Protocol 2.07: (Kernel 2.6.24) Added paravirtualised
> boot protocol.
> and KEEP_SEGMENTS flag in load_flags.
>
> [3 lines]
>
> should have been:
>
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Protocol 2.07: (Kernel 2.6.24) Added paravirtualised boot protocol.
> and KEEP_SEGMENTS flag in load_flags.
>
> [2 lines]
>
> If you post from gmail it might make sense to send patches as MIME
> attachments, we can process them just fine. (as long as you send patches
> that go via -tip - other maintainers have different policies regarding
> MIME attachments)
>
Or simply don't use Gmails web interface for sending the emails.
I used to use Gmail in the past, but I used it with Pine or Alpine most
of the time. Alpine can be configured to send proper emails and just use
Gmails SMTP server for sending them - Mutt also works fine.

--
Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
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