Re: Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/x86/boot.txt:payload length waschanged to payload_length

[Jesper Juhl]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Baodong Chen <chenbdchenbd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > * Baodong Chen <chenbdchenbd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >>  Documentation/x86/boot.txt:payload length was changed to payload_length
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Baodong Chen <[email]chenbdchenbd@xxxxxxxxx[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.

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