Re: [PATCH 1/18] 2.6.17.9 perfmon2 patch for review: introduction

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:04:58 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 doubt if many MUAs do numeric sorting..
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